[ Thanks to An Anonymous
Reader for this link. ]
“So what are these other “hidden” features referred to
in the post title? – apart of course for the oxygen settings
dialog. Well, they’re the features that the KDE SC 4.x series have
been built on, but seem to have no, or very little visibility in
KDE SC 4.x. I’m talking about the semantic desktop, the social
desktop and desktop activities. The release notes promise:“A special focus of this release cycle is the stability of the
software delivered with KDE SC 4.5. While there are many exciting
new features, developers have spent considerable amounts of time
finishing off features and polishing those that haven’t come to
full bloom yet.“Desktop activities promised, in the early 4.x days, to
revolutionise the workflow of KDE users. It would allow different
desktops for different purposes. I understood that it would be
context sensitive and task specific. It would understand what you
were doing and provide you with the tools to do it. This sounded
exciting. But where is this feature? How do you get it going?
Unfortunately, there is not a great deal of discoverability for
this feature. KDE SC 4.5 does include a new dialog for creating and
changing activities, which looks a lot like the new widget
dialog:”