[empire29]

The performance seemed lacking, but more importantly, while watching the demo the concept of an "activity" confused me -- I assume its similar to the notion of an app, but it was hard to tell as the "activity" was represented as a desktop -- overall fairly confusing.

It doesnt look ready for prime time but its exciting to see the FOSS community working on it; who knows, in a few years it might be able to garner the same eminence as xbmc has in the htpc space.

[trotsky]

Activities in KDE are workspaces more or less, a combination of applications and data that you use for a specific set of tasks. They were introduced on the desktop in KDE 4, but (imho) they still feel rather awkward.

You'll be seeing a lot more tablet focused rollouts in X over the next 6 months to a year, as XInput 2.2 that has support for multitouch in a standard way was recently merged. Fedora 17 and Ubuntu 12.04 both plan to include it, and Ubuntu has a fairly developed touch and gesture recognition infrastructure.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAzM...

[kijin]

The whole "activity" thing tends to get confusing, even in desktop KDE. It's a nice concept on paper, but badly in need of intuitive appeal.

[ahel]

http://blip.tv/file/get/Chani-activities46160.ogv That video may help you, like had helped me.

[agumonkey]

There was a lot of nice things there, but .. I'm still confused :D