This has been addressed, probably hundreds of times, but... still there are a "lot people" that just don't "understand" KDE/activities/widgets.
So I'm not going to "explain it", I'm going to give a concrete, working, example.
The real BIG thing about the KDE desktop is ......duuhhhh how many TIMES have you heard THIS......... customizability.
Example:
a) after a deluge of free money for the last six years the feds have now found .......won't say "religion" and want ALL THAT MONEY ACCOUNTED FOR!!
b) that translated, last fall into "really encouraging" the profs to actually.......keep attendance ....on the college's attendance book: Pinnacle.
c) Spring Semester it shouted at us..... USE PINNACLE!!
d) Over the summer, during which I don't teach, it became mandatory..........
e) THIS ....so that there can be an "administrative drop" for a student if a pin the tail on the donkey set of absence rules are met........more complicated than "just being absent".
f) This semester.......... we get a WARNING from a gnome that sits on a high chair at a tall table warming his hands over a candle... :0
that we are on the naughty list if we don't post the absences daily........:0
So.......my life has changed I needed to customize Kubuntu.
g) the PROBLEM is that to get to pinnacle from within Blackboard is ....convoluted.......... the easiest way is to type in an url for Pinnacle in a browser and one is done.......that is the way it has been for probably five years.
So to make it easy........at home.........not on Windblows 8.1 !!!! :0
h) I made a new activity and entitled it "Pinnacle".
i) on the new desktop I placed the "quicklauncher" widget...(with the rocket) in the middle of the screen.
j) I deleted the Dolphin link and in the properties of the FF launcher I went to "url" and pasted the previously copied url of Pinnacle.
k) I changed the icon to an internet thingy.
That is all that is on the desktop and the only use of the activity,....
.. but I do not have to: i) Go to Menu, ii) Navigate to FF favourite iii) launch FF iv) go to the url box and type in the url of Pinnacle v) mouse to the login box. click the name box, enter it, hit enter and enter password.
l) This way it is click the activity.... click the launcher, AND....since the copied URL already had the cursor in the name box..just enter name, hit return, enter password, hit return and done.........
One could ALSO;........make another virtual desktop, or add a face to the cube..
So...........a concrete example of the "use" of the "activity" and a "widget".
I am sure that others can list similar situations.
See note below:
woodsmoke
I am sure that there who would say that this almost Rube Goldberg......going to all that trouble when one could just...
So I'm not going to "explain it", I'm going to give a concrete, working, example.
The real BIG thing about the KDE desktop is ......duuhhhh how many TIMES have you heard THIS......... customizability.
Example:
a) after a deluge of free money for the last six years the feds have now found .......won't say "religion" and want ALL THAT MONEY ACCOUNTED FOR!!
b) that translated, last fall into "really encouraging" the profs to actually.......keep attendance ....on the college's attendance book: Pinnacle.
c) Spring Semester it shouted at us..... USE PINNACLE!!
d) Over the summer, during which I don't teach, it became mandatory..........
e) THIS ....so that there can be an "administrative drop" for a student if a pin the tail on the donkey set of absence rules are met........more complicated than "just being absent".
f) This semester.......... we get a WARNING from a gnome that sits on a high chair at a tall table warming his hands over a candle... :0
that we are on the naughty list if we don't post the absences daily........:0
So.......my life has changed I needed to customize Kubuntu.
g) the PROBLEM is that to get to pinnacle from within Blackboard is ....convoluted.......... the easiest way is to type in an url for Pinnacle in a browser and one is done.......that is the way it has been for probably five years.
So to make it easy........at home.........not on Windblows 8.1 !!!! :0
h) I made a new activity and entitled it "Pinnacle".
i) on the new desktop I placed the "quicklauncher" widget...(with the rocket) in the middle of the screen.
j) I deleted the Dolphin link and in the properties of the FF launcher I went to "url" and pasted the previously copied url of Pinnacle.
k) I changed the icon to an internet thingy.
That is all that is on the desktop and the only use of the activity,....
.. but I do not have to: i) Go to Menu, ii) Navigate to FF favourite iii) launch FF iv) go to the url box and type in the url of Pinnacle v) mouse to the login box. click the name box, enter it, hit enter and enter password.
l) This way it is click the activity.... click the launcher, AND....since the copied URL already had the cursor in the name box..just enter name, hit return, enter password, hit return and done.........
One could ALSO;........make another virtual desktop, or add a face to the cube..
So...........a concrete example of the "use" of the "activity" and a "widget".
I am sure that others can list similar situations.
See note below:
woodsmoke
I am sure that there who would say that this almost Rube Goldberg......going to all that trouble when one could just...
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