{"id":774,"date":"2009-04-09T22:52:46","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T22:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notmart.org\/index.php\/Software\/Dashboards,_activities_and_deskt"},"modified":"2009-04-09T22:52:46","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T22:52:46","slug":"dashboards_activities_and_deskt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/dashboards_activities_and_deskt\/","title":{"rendered":"Dashboards, activities and desktops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s a tiny feature that apparently makes several people happy:<br \/>\nNow the plasma dashboard is a way to quick access your desktop widgets whente desktop is covered by windows, and i really like this feature as it works.<\/p>\n<p>But since KDE 4.2 it&#8217;s possible too with a little bit of digging trigh the config files to set a different activity for the dashboard, that is a similar behaviour to what some other operating system i can exactly remember the name does (it has something to do with fruit and groceries iirc :p)<\/p>\n<p>But this was sooo well hidden that people kept asking if some day that feature will be available, so here we go:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notmart.org\/images\/dashboard_config.png\" alt=\"dashboard config\" style=\"float:none;margin:auto;clear:both\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In KDE 4.3, just zoom out and you will see a new controls box that has the actions that don&#8217;t belong to single activities (yeah, no more silly add activity on each activity:) and two options: click on &#8220;use a separate dashboard&#8221; and then you&#8217;ll have an activity just for the dashboard (not visible in the zoom out view) so here you have different plasmoids on desktop and dashboard:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notmart.org\/images\/dashboard1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notmart.org\/images\/tn_dashboard1.png\" alt=\"dashboard config\" style=\"float:none;margin:auto;clear:both\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and there is also the other checkbox, &#8220;use a different activity for each desktop&#8221; this was availale in 4.2 as an hidden config option too, if you check it it&#8217;s what you get:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notmart.org\/images\/pervirtualdesktopviews.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notmart.org\/images\/tn_pervirtualdesktopviews.png\" alt=\"dashboard config\" style=\"float:none;margin:auto;clear:both\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s a tiny feature that apparently makes several people happy: Now the plasma dashboard is a way to quick access your desktop widgets whente desktop is covered by windows, and i really like this feature as it works. But since KDE 4.2 it&#8217;s possible too with a little bit of digging trigh the config files [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2,10,21,7],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-kde","tag-kde4","tag-linux","tag-plasma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}