I think KDE4.3 has surpassed KDE 3.5.10 ...

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Anne Wilson<cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 28 August 2009 07:46:07 Anne Wilson wrote:
>> On Friday 28 August 2009 04:30:21 Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Linuxguy123<linuxguy123 at gmail.com>
>>
>> wrote:
>> > > I think that KDE 4.3 has surpassed what we had with KDE 3.5.10.  I've
>> > > been running 4.3 for the past few days and its awesome.
>> > >
>> > > This is the first time that I feel the KDE 4.x series has surpassed the
>> > > KDE 3.5 releases.   Good work !
>> >
>> > Still no wallpaper per virtual desktop though.
>>
>> I have different wallpapers on each desktop - just to prove it can be done.
>>  I don't recall having to do anything special to do it (just since 4.3),
>> but I've already promised to try to check out today whether I've forgotten
>> something. I'll report back if I find that something was needed.
>>
> I'd forgotten how I did it.  You may remember that I said a long time ago that
> you could do it in Activities, but not in desktops.  Now you combine the two.
>
> Use the desktop cashew to zoom out > create an Activity for each desktop that
> you want - IOW 4 desktops = 4 Activities >  Configure each Activity with the
> wallpaper you want.  Go back to your first Activity and zoom in - you are back
> where you started.
>
> Now go to each desktop, zoom out, set one Activity to use that desktop, zoom
> in.  Do this for each desktop.  Now you can use your desktops just as you
> always did, but each has settings that are independent of each other.
>
> Takes a few minutes to set up, but from then on it's as easy as it always was.
>
> Anne


That's a far cry from how simple it was to do this in 3.5.


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