On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Steven W. Orr steveo@syslang.net wrote:
I'm looking at keyboard shortcuts and I have no idea what some of the functions are. I don't see any documentation on it at all, so I suppose this is the right place to ask.
- There's a function called "Switch to Screen $ii" for ii in 0 to 7.
What pray tell is a "screen". I know it's not a Desktop.
Try it out, I suspect you're referring to switching between virtual desktops.
- I have a few effects turned on. What is Toggle Expose Effect and Toggle
Sharpen Effect? They don't seem to do anything obvious.
Example of a random Expose effect: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=11988
Didn't find an example of sharpen, but this page mentions it: http://rivolaks.blogspot.com/2007/09/kwin-improvements.html
- I found some arrows that seem to be drawn with Meta+Shift+Ctrl. What is
that?
Not a clue
- And my last question (for tonight) is: What is an activity?
I haven't seen that term used outside the Sugar desktop myself
I do understand that kde4 is a work in progress and I am honored to be a guinea pig, but when it's done, what will I be thrilled to be doing with it?
I am not sure anyone can tell you that. I personally use it to get work done better.
It seems like I can have a desktop with multiple widget configurations, but is that a good thing?
Well it's not necessarily a bad thing. KDE, Google, Gnome, MacOS and Windows Vista all seem to have this feature now, so I guess someone uses it. At the very least, you may find the folder widget useful.
Also, just so you know: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kde may be of use to you if the noise level on this list is too high.