![]() And swapping between is as easy as a click on your activity widget where-ever you put it (default on the taskbar at the left to the right of the menu button), or hitting Super+Tab (instead of Alt+Tab for switching programs, Super+Tab by default switches activities). Each ‘activity’ is not just different themes or desktop backgrounds or so, you can change a lot of things, even some system settings like your power settings, the language, etc… etc… etc… It is hugely integrated. ![]() Each activity can have entirely different desktop Widget layout (so the taskbar can be different on each, can get a Mac-OSX style launcher if you want, etc… etc… etc…), different icons, different favorate programs, etc… They are to help you get into the right mindspace, like just kind theme your Work activity green, Home activity as blue, and Gaming activity as red or something, with their own widget layouts and all. Each of which have their own multiple desktops (and each desktop can have their own set of tabbed windows, or windows can span multiple desktops, or you can have multiple desktops be on, say, a big rotating 3D cube or something with a 3D scene in the center of it). The ‘usual’ example of activities is having, say, a Work, Home, and Gaming activities. This is especially fun considering you can drag any KDE widget ( everything is a widget in KDE) into any program’s chrome (or the middle of the program anywhere if they use the right Qt interfaces) so you can get little self-contained things.Īctivities are entirely different. If you use a theme that supports it (not the default Breeze, but like Oxygen or so) then you can put any windows together into their own tabbed windows, like chrome but each tab is a different program, and you can mix and match all you want. The elegance and consistency of macOS Mojave make it all the more noticeable.Desktop stacks is basically where anything on your desktop is stacked into a group, and you click to expand (so all images in one stack, all PDFs in another, etc) Some people may not care about all this, but as someone with an eye for design, this stuff really gets to me and it's one of the reasons why Windows 10 always feel unfinished. Right now, though, CShell is pretty far away from hitting desktop devices, meaning for now we're stuck with this inconsistent experience. We also know that Microsoft is working on CShell, which will feature light mode in areas such as the taskbar, and Start menu. In this same perfect world, dark mode would be consistent across in-box apps and available in all of them rather than "most of them." Microsoft is currently working on implementing a new design language in Windows 10 called Fluent Design, which should hopefully see a lot of UI elements align with consistency. ![]() In a perfect world, the light mode would make all UI areas light, including the most prominent, always-on screen parts of the experience, or the Windows Shell. But in dark mode, you get an inconsistent dark app experience, that matches the rest of the Windows Shell. So, in light mode, you get a rather consistent light mode in apps, which clashes with the Windows Shell because it is dark all the time. System elements such as the taskbar, Start menu, and Action Center simply ignore light mode. And the light mode is even worse than the dark mode when it comes to consistency. You wouldn't think this was a "light mode" would you? Well, it is. Windows 10, by default, is set to light mode (see above image). ![]() The biggest issue I have with dark mode actually has nothing to do with dark mode, but rather, the light mode. ![]()
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