Martin Koller wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm currently migrating from being a longterm KDE3 user to KDE 4.3. > So I want to find out: what can KDE4, especially Plasma, offer me I had not in KDE3 ? > E.g. in the bottom panel I see an icon telling me "Show the Plasma Dashboard" ... > but I have no idea what a "Plasma Dashboard" is, and clicking on it just dims my whole > desktop and leaves the icons on the desktop in normal colors ... > But what can I do here ? > > Also the idea behind the activities is not obvious to me (e.g. what's the difference > to virtual desktops ?). > > I tried to find some docs on techbase.kde.org, but they are mostly development related > (although I'm a developer, in this case I'd like to understand plasma from the > users POV). Other docs on www.kde.org are totally outdated ... > > Any pointer greatly appreciated. > Well, I am still looking for that Plasma to English dictionary. :-D I realize that there is a language barrier since the main developer lives in Canada. :-) IIUC, the Plasma Dashboard is (or replaces) the KDE Desktop. If you look, the ToolTip for this functions does say "Show the Desktop". -- James Tyrer Linux (mostly) From Scratch ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.