Activities [was Re: Subtracting workspaces]

[Dan Winship <danw gnome org>]

Anton Kerezov wrote:
> But if someone wants to close an activity (represented by workspace)

OK, lots of people are confused about this. The workspaces do not
represent activities, they represent workspaces, just like in the
current GNOME desktop. The fact that the menu/button says "Activities"
is not meant to imply that therefore each workspace is an "activity". It
is referring to the *entire* overlay view. Your various activities may
each be scattered across multiple workspaces, and the application
launcher and recent files are "activities" as well. The label generally
sucks and there was discussion about changing it, except no one could
come up with anything we liked any better.

Some people have proposed various ideas for making the desktop more
explicitly "activity-focused", but that was not part of the original
GNOME Shell plan, and these ideas are no more (or less) likely to make
it into the final GNOME Shell than any of the other ideas that people
have proposed.

-- Dan