windows and default activity assignment

[Marco Martin]

On Wednesday 01 December 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 30, 2010, Ivan Čukić wrote:
> > There are a few things more that need to be done for 4.7:
> > - In 'Adwanced Window/Application Settings' - show on specified/all
> > activities - an application should be able to request to be on all
> > activities (because it handles them internally - kmail, kopete..., or
> > don't care at all about them - amarok, yakuake...)
> 
> i agree .. sort of.
> 
> i really don't think this should be up to apps in an explicit "set on all
> activities" sense, anymore than how they are displayed in the system tray
> is completely up to them. what we need is information about what the
> application is "about" and then let the _system_ make decisions based on
> that. this way we don't need to convince all app devs to do the "right
> thing" (a definition almost certain to drift with time and our growing
> expertise) and it lets us change the results in one place.

I see it more:
application says nothing->all activities
appliction says it's about document -> single activity
something else -> figure out later ;)

Cheers, 
Marco Martin