Recently, I wrote a post about the KDE 4.5 SC release candidate. In that post, I was a little bit critical about the discoverability of desktop activities. I wasn’t too sure of what the purpose of these were, and there was nothing in the interface for creating these activities that gave the user any hint of what they were. Whilst I stand by that criticism, I’ve found a great article that explains the purpose of desktop activities.

Whilst I now understand how these features work and might be used, I still don’t understand how this might improve my workflow. However, the lead developer of plasma, Aaron Seigo, has promised further development around Nepomuk, potentially taking desktop activities to a whole new level.

I would imagine the implementation of these features won’t be quick. First, the KDE SC 4.6 feature plan doesn’t show any new features in this area being developed.

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