Display Plasmoids only on Dashboard

dickohead

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Location: Melbourne

Tuesday, August 12th 2008, 6:51am

Display Plasmoids only on Dashboard

Hi all,

I installed OpenSuse 11 last night and thought I'd give KDE a try after having used Gnome for the last few years. I must admit - I loved it!

However (there's always a but, er... a however); how do I have some Plasmoids on my "desktop" and some on the "dashboard"? I'd like to have a seperate view of items, similar to OSX I guess. That way I can have my program icons always visible, and things like weather and notes hidden from view during normal operation.

I tried adding plasmoids when the dashboard was visible and then locking them (as this made sense) but it has not changed anything.

Any suggestions?

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neverendingo

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Posts: 94

Tuesday, August 12th 2008, 9:38am

Well, i don't know if this is planned for future releases, but till now it is not possible. Actually the Dashboard IS the desktop, "Show Dashboard" only moves the desktop to the front, so you can work with your widgets.
But maybe here is a workaround, that could fix your needs. Add another activity, then add another set of widgets to that new activity. That way you can switch between the activitys (Ctrl+SHIFT+P or N) to see your different widget sets.

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dickohead

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Location: Melbourne

Wednesday, August 13th 2008, 5:13am

Alright... I'm squatting in a "ready to duck" position... But what is an activity and how do I make one?

I've searched kde.org, this site and googled for the term "activity" in relation to KDE and plasma/plasmoids... but have come up empty handed as to how I actually "Add another activity".

Sorry if I'm asking stoppid stuffs, but I've been a Gnome user for quite some time. I was once a KDE lover :love:

, but curiosity got the better of me. Sorry. :tongue:

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "dickohead" (Aug 13th 2008, 5:21am)

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neverendingo

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Wednesday, August 13th 2008, 11:04am

hehe, you don't need to. It's not very visible atm.

in the upper right corner, when you click in it, you have the option to "zoom out". Now you have an overview of your current activities. Should be 1 for you. Now when click again on the little cashews in the corner you have the option "add activity".
And when you added another activity, you can do "zoom in" and then change the activities with the above mentioned keyboard shortcuts.
Btw., you can even have different wallpapers for your activities.

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dickohead

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Location: Melbourne

Wednesday, August 13th 2008, 11:53am

Zoom Out eh? I have attached an image of what options I get when I right click on my cashews... Is this an OpenSuseism?

dickohead has attached the following image:

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neverendingo

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Wednesday, August 13th 2008, 12:11pm

No, a left click is enough, and then the room around the cashew will expand with some items.

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dickohead

Beginner

Posts: 6

Location: Melbourne

Wednesday, August 13th 2008, 12:18pm

I only get:

Add Item
Lock Widgets
Show Dashboard

When I mouse-over the cashews. Left clicking seems to do nothing.

Do I have to enable Zooming somewhere?