On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 11:20 AM Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 12:13 AM Luya Tshimbalanga
<luya(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 2021-01-25 1:49 p.m., Neal Gompa wrote:
> >
> > Also, like Matthew, I don't really understand the term
"Activities" in
> > this context...
> >
> "Activities" is a term to describe the list of applications originally
> on Sugar Desktop environment initially intended for One Laptop Per Child
> project.
>
> See
https://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/
>
But that's not what it does in GNOME? Clicking on "Activities" takes
you to the desktop overview. So shouldn't this be called something
else?
Historically, this has nothing to do with that, and nothing to do with
the KDE usage of the word activities. Activities was just chosen as a
term to cover "things you might want to interact with next"
* Windows you have open
* Workspaces
* Applications
* Your documents [since removed]
There's a pretty high bar for changing this - you'd invalidate a lot
of user experience, a lot of existing documentation/search results on
the internet. Is there really a significantly more meaningful word to
refer to "windows and workspaces and applications"?
Owen