Contribution proposal: Easier way to move windows between activities

[Andreas Demmer]

Hi,

I recently started to use activities efficiently at work: One activity per 
project which makes it easy to have the according project folders opened etc.

One major pain I ran into was to move windows from one activity to another. 
E.g. when working on activity 1 and recieving an instant message via kopete, 
the chat window will open in the current activity when it was not open before. 
If I notice now, that the chat is related to activity 2, it would be nice to 
easily move the chat window to activity 2. Instead, I have to right-click the 
title bar, select activities, check activity 2. Afterwards I have to right-
click the title bar again, select activities and uncheck activity 1. This is 
way to unconvenient!

My idea: Drag drag and hold the window over the activity plasmoid in the 
controlbar which would open the activity switcher. Now I continue to drag the 
window over the activity to which I would like to move it and drop it.

I want to contribute this but would like to ask a few prerequisites. First: Is 
this behaviour compliant with how the plasma-desktop should feel like or does 
someone have a better suggestion how the workflow should be like?

Second: I see from the pastebin plasmoid, that plasmoids already seem to 
support dragging things on them. Is it already possible do react on window-
drag or does this have implications to add this feature to KWin? Maybe Martin 
can shed some light on this.

Greets,
Andreas

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http://www.andreas-demmer.de
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