the next step on the desktop

[Jeffery MacEachern]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:29, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> On Monday, January 31, 2011, Ivan Čukić wrote:
>> > hm.. but they don't show up in window titlebar context menus when they
>> > are stopped; so a "bug" in kwin, then? it should be possible imho to
>> > send windows to any defined activity. we could put the stopped
>> > activities at the bottom of
>>
>> What would that do?
>>
>> 1. Start the activity in question
>
> that would be unexpected imho.
+1
>> 2. Stop the application and remember it should be in that activity
>> 2. Just assign the window to the activity (apart from the current one)
>> and do nothing else
>
> if it is only associated with stopped activities, then it should probably
> "join them". if it is also associated with the current activity, then it
> should just be assigned. still thinking about it though :)

The feasibility of this would depend on how the Activity assignment is
(re?)done, IMO. For example, in the KWin Activities menu, you have to
perform each (de)assignment individually, which - with this proposal -
could result in accidentally "disappearing" an application that you
were going to pin to a running activity as well.

 - Jeffery MacEachern