[Bug 162900] Why are there activities and virtual desktops?

[Dennis Nienhüser]

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------- Additional Comments From earthwings gentoo org  2008-06-11 20:53 -------
Activities group related plasmoids together, virtual desktop group related windows. Separating both concepts allows for higher flexibility (less configuration on the user side) when changing the one or the other: You can switch plasmoids and keep the active programs, or the other way round. Using virtual desktops for plasmoids would mean that both programs and plasmoids switch at the same time when you possibly want to change only one of them.

For activity switching I'd expect it to improve wrt consistency and comfort, afaik it's still in the earlier stages.