Activities -- Tumbleweed vs. Leap vs. ...
by rnturn from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4TQ2P)
... 32-bit vs. 64-bit.
Setup: I have a 64-bit desktop system running Leap 15.1 and a 32-bit laptop running Tumbleweed. Both systems are using KDE/Plasma (obviously, I guess, since I've mentioned "activities").
Problem: Despite my best efforts (same desktop/window themes, etc.) to keep these two environments as close as it possible given that one is supposedly the "stable one" and the other tries to be "bleeding edge" I keep running into little things that I can't believe are due to those different goals.
I transitioned from virtual desktops to "activities" to re-gain the visual cues about what activity I'm in by having different wallpapers and that nicety was lost a while back for virtual desktops. (Being able to customize the Application Launcher menus per Activity was pretty nifty as well.) One of the nice things I use in my desktop panels is the "Activity Pager". Recently, though, one feature that I use heavily at times is the ability to grab the outline of a window in the pager and drag it to a different activity. This is invaluable in the cases when Firefox or the desktop (or the power grid) crashes and I am recovering all of my browser windows/tabs---I can restart Firefox, wait for all the windows to stabilize, and drag them to the activities where I was using them before the outage.
On the 32-bit laptop, though, I've noticed that the drag-n-drop feature is not working. On that system, the only way to move a window to a different activity is to go through 5-6 separate left and right mouse clicks to open a menu (multiple times), select the new activity, unselect the current one, etc., etc. Tedious and user-hostile barely describes the process.
Questions:
Setup: I have a 64-bit desktop system running Leap 15.1 and a 32-bit laptop running Tumbleweed. Both systems are using KDE/Plasma (obviously, I guess, since I've mentioned "activities").
Problem: Despite my best efforts (same desktop/window themes, etc.) to keep these two environments as close as it possible given that one is supposedly the "stable one" and the other tries to be "bleeding edge" I keep running into little things that I can't believe are due to those different goals.
I transitioned from virtual desktops to "activities" to re-gain the visual cues about what activity I'm in by having different wallpapers and that nicety was lost a while back for virtual desktops. (Being able to customize the Application Launcher menus per Activity was pretty nifty as well.) One of the nice things I use in my desktop panels is the "Activity Pager". Recently, though, one feature that I use heavily at times is the ability to grab the outline of a window in the pager and drag it to a different activity. This is invaluable in the cases when Firefox or the desktop (or the power grid) crashes and I am recovering all of my browser windows/tabs---I can restart Firefox, wait for all the windows to stabilize, and drag them to the activities where I was using them before the outage.
On the 32-bit laptop, though, I've noticed that the drag-n-drop feature is not working. On that system, the only way to move a window to a different activity is to go through 5-6 separate left and right mouse clicks to open a menu (multiple times), select the new activity, unselect the current one, etc., etc. Tedious and user-hostile barely describes the process.
Questions:
- Any "Activities" users out there still using older 32-bit systems that may have experienced this? And fixed it?
- Are the components of the 32- and 64-bit desktop diverging? Most distributions seem to want to leave 32-bit software behind. Big change in the Linux universe, IMHO, and not a good one. (Not limited to openSUSE, though.)
- Is Tumbleweed previewing the loss of a feature that will eventually be making its way into Leap? (All I can say is "Ugh!" if that's the case.)