On 1 May 2015 at 15:58, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 01 May 2015 15:16:58 +0100
Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-05-01 at 14:19 +0100, José Matos wrote:
> > I agree with others that the plasma forgetting the session data is
> > the worst problem of plasma 5. That can in part be mitigated by
> > assigning initial desktops for applications since I always start
> > konsole in desktop 1, dolphin in desktop 2, kontact and firefox in
> > desktop 4 and so on. Not perfect but it helps a bit.
>
> Unfortunately I have a number of browser windows in different
> desktops. I tried setting the desktop property for the app and then
> for one of the windows separately but that doesn't get the result I
> want.
I tend to have exclusively one konsole and one firefox window opened at
a time (on their respective desktops), and extensively use multiple
tabs. This avoids over-cluttering the desktops (in my case, remaining
six desktops can then be used for various other apps, one per desktop),
and I always know where to look for various stuff... ;-) Btw,
given the multiple tabs functionality, I always fail to see the reason
for having multiple window instances of the same app (like firefox or
konsole).
Well, since you said you were interested, any circumstance where you
need to see information from two pages/tabs at once. Or if researching
something you may have a window open with multiple tabs open for that,
with another window that you're working in. I'll typically start a
task and if it gets big send it to its own desktop, which may be a few
konsole windows and any other programs that are relevant (browser,
spreadsheet etc.). In the case of browsers, some sites or applications
will use their own sub-windows, e.g. I listen to BBC iplayer radio,
this really wants its own window sized to their interface, and it's
easier to let it do that rather than open in a tab (so it can be
minimised without cluttering up tabs I actually want to look at).
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imalone
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