Plasma and KWin Integration

[Marco Martin]

On Thursday 12 February 2009, Michael Jansen wrote:
> > There's some experimental code right now, but we
> > need to find a good metaphor to translate it into something that makes
> > sense to the user.
>
> My mind immediately translated that to "Have solution, seek problem".
>
> I never got the hang of that activity thing. Still have no idea how someday
> it is supposed to make me more productive.
>
> But i have some ideas what i would like to have. And because i don't care
> how it is named in the end i just put my wishes into this thread.
>
> The following has nothing to do with activities in my opinion. I would like
> to be able to configure my virtual desktop/widgets
>
>     a. Same widgets on all virtual desktops
>     b. Different widgets on all virtual desktops
>     c. Associating a set of widget with virtual desktops, like widget set a
> on virtual desktop 1,3,5, widget set b on virtual desktip 2,4,6) would be
> nice to have.

for now we are limited to either one for all desktops or one per desktop, no 
subsets. aside from the fact that there is no windowmanager support for now i 
wonder if it wouldn't make things even more complex to the user, perhaps just 
needs a clever enough gui for that, hmm

> Activity in the sense i understand it has nothing to do with
> widgets/virtual desktops. An activity is primarily nothing but some kind of
> global setting i am able to configure. Like creating an activity "Work",
> "Private" or "KDE Development".
>
> Applications then could allow different configurations associated with the
> activity.

it's what Plasma::Context is/will be for, an application would just need to 
link to it i suppose...

> For example the global shortcuts code would allow to have different
> sets of global
> shortcuts depending of the set activity, plasma could allow setting a
> different theme / wallpaper etc. Amarok could switch playlists if i
> configure that. khotkeys could adapt, kmail shows different mail boxes etc.
> . kwin has a different configuration (less virtual desktops on the private
> activity but more visual bling). Konqueror switches bookmarks. nepomuk
> shows/hides different results depending on the activity.
>
> I want that kmail thing to not get distracted when working with private
> email, i want to associate messenger contacts with activities like offline
> for user xyz when in activity private because i want to not get bothered by
> my colleagues when in private mode.
>
> All of this is opt in. When i create a activity nothing changes. I have
> to go and reconfigure something and click the button "Apply to current
> activity" or "Associate configuration with activity". Each application has
> to decide and implements it's own support of activities.
>
> I have no idea if that is workable/doable. But that's what i would like to
> have as activities.
>
> Mike
>
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