How to delete/map Activities?

[Petrus de Calguarium]

Anne Wilson wrote:

> I don't have too many plasmoids

I observe that plasmoids mostly just duplicate 
applications, and I prefer the full-fledged apps with 
all of the bells and whistles, as opposed to scaled-
down plasmoidal apps. Also, you have to minimize or 
clear away everything from the desktop to use a 
plasmoid, so you might as well just use the real thing 
in a window.

I do, however, like the weather report, a calculator, 
a notepad and an rss aggregator (mostly for scanning 
headlines, but generally I then move to google reader 
to do serious reading) on the desktop.

After reading an article about the future of the 
desktop, I tried removing the panel entirely and 
putting all of the functions - time, s-tasks, sys-
tray, kmenu - on the desk as plasmoids, but, firstly, 
it was not functional, as I had to constantly rotate 
to the virtual desktop with those plasmoids, and 
secondly, having quite a number of plasmoids really 
does not make for an aesthetically pleasing desktop, 
as it looks like a messy jumble (I always hated 
shortcut icons on the desktop, and this appears much 
the same). If they were all standard sizes, it would 
be easier to arrange them to make it look classy. 
Plasmoids have a limited value, primarily for system 
functions, but you don't see people showing off 
screenshots of their beautiful desktops since the 
advent of the plasmoid.

Luckily, I have Intel graphics on both computers and 
don't have to disable anything to watch video. Intel 
rocks, these days, after a very rough 18 months that 
ended when I moved to f12α in late August.

Firefox problems? Luckily, none here at all, but I use 
the desktop 99% of the time, so the laptop is just for 
the bedroom, and I rarely use a computer in bed, re: 
proper sleep hygiene ;-)