• Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I get to use Linux at $DAYJOB and I have a rather customized KDE setup (basically window tiling, 20-80 workspaces, a workspace minimap in the panel).
    Usually, I’m surrounded by other nerds, who’ll ask about it occasionally, but you know, they’ve heard of or used Linux before, they know that some crazy things can be done.

    Now, yesterday, I was in a call with the legal department. I started sharing my screen and explaining my relatively simple problem. And the guy took longer than I expected to respond, which made me quite self-conscious, whether he needs time to process my explanation …or rather what in the fresh hell I did to my computer to make it look like that. 🙃

      • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        14 hours ago

        It’s just the normal “Pager” widget, configured to show application icons.

        I find “minimap” more descriptive for what I’m doing, because I don’t minimize, nor stack windows, so if a window exists, it has a location.
        Which is also ultimately how I use this thing. Imagine a large desk where you need to jump between topics every so often. You’d put related sheets of paper next to each other and leave a bit of space between the groups. Sheets of paper are just application windows in my case (I will open one or more windows per task, I don’t mix tasks together based on application like people usually do). Well, and my desk also happens to be very long, so I can comfortably fit a minimap for it in my panel.

        And because I really like multitasking, I’ve actually got multiple desks, in different colors:

        For these, I use Plasma’s Activities. The different colors are done by having a transparent panel and then setting the wallpaper to different colors + telling Plasma to use the wallpaper for determining the accent color.

        In this screenshot, you can also beautifully see a workspace with 5 Kate windows, which is genuinely where I shoved a bunch of notes, for me to sort through them later. 🙃

        • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 hours ago

          I knew Activities were going to be involved. I freaking love Activities, it makes multitasking work so well. It’s a highly under-valued and ignored feature that I think more people would use if they knew about it.

          Thanks for the effort you put into the reply!

      • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        24 hours ago

        Not a piece of software I’d use voluntarily: The web version of MS Teams.