On Monday, 2012-06-18, Hendrik Sollich wrote: > Hello KDE, > > I read a bunch of news about the discussion going on about the > improvements to kde for people like "Raj" and "Carla" and that things > were going to become "more useful". > After what happend at gnome I've become a bit anxious about "improving > usability" so I'm just asking for some reassurance. > > Will I be able to use KDE5 the way I'm using KDE4 today? Meaning: n-by-n > workspaces, panels, window-rules and most of all 'configurability'? I am pretty sure about that. KWin, which is responsible for virtual workspaces and window-rules, might change how it is interacting with the lower parts of the stack, e.g. adding support for wayland, but I don't think there are any plans to remove things like virtual desktops as long as the base technologies allow such things to be implemented (which as far as I know they do). Virtual desktops, and to a lesser extent window specific rules, are widely used in the KDE contributor community. I can't think of any KDE person I've met who was not using multiple virtual desktops to organize application windows. As far as I understand, the people working on KDE workspace products consider activities to be a complimentary technology to virtual desktops, i.e. something that can be used in concert with desktop switching. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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