[Bug 299290] New: KDE activities needs improvement with app management.

[Praveen Thivari]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299290

            Bug ID: 299290
          Severity: wishlist
           Version: unspecified
          Priority: NOR
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
           Summary: KDE activities needs improvement with app management.
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: Linux
          Reporter: praveenthivari at gmail.com
          Hardware: Ubuntu Packages
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
         Component: general
           Product: unknown

At present I have two activities setup. One is INTERNET and the other is
READING activities.

Both serve different purpose so I require different apps for those.

And I have the habit of keeping the icon pinned to icon-tasks widgets when the
app is not running. 
For Eg: In 'INTERNET ACTIVITY' I have pinned chrome and firefox to show icon in
Icon-tasks widgets when not running. And wouldn't want to see those app when I
am in 'READING' activities. And would like to pin some reading app to the
icon-task bar.

But at present when I create a new activity whole of my taskbar is copied to
the new activities,
In my case even icon-tasks settings of one acivity is carried over to other
activity. So in 'READING' I have chrome and firefox pinned to icon-tasks(even
though I dont need them in my present activity'

So I request you to bring in a feature that enables to set even the taskbar
widgets and settings only to certain activity.( If other disagree then an
option should be provided to disable such sharing of apps between activities).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Setup 2 activities 'A' and 'B'
2) Open two apps X and Y in activity 'A'
3) Right click on taskbar icon of 'X' and select 'Show launcher when not
running' 
4)Close the app.and allow Y running
4) Switch to activity 'B'
Actual Results:  
You will notice the launcher of the app ' X' created in activity 'A' is carried
over to activity 'B'. (This is bad)
But the icon of app Y doesn't show in activity 'B' (A good result)

Expected Results:  
The icon of X should not show up in activity B even if it's pinned to taskbar.

Conclusion: 
Recommendation 1) An apps icon whether pinned/unpinned to taskbar, whether
running or not running, should reside in it's own activity. (This was the 
thing I wanted to tell with above descriptions)

Coming to other finer features:
Recommendation 2) The other way round should be possible ie if I click on
firefox from kick-off menu it should take me the activity in which the app
resides instead of creating a new window in present activity.
         Suppose, I am reading a book and and have remembered to email a friend
a letter, Once I select an app from Kickoff  menu, I should be taken into that
activity for further work. When I close firefox I should be transported back to
my earlier activity.  

Recommendation 3) There should be a widget/drawer/setting which displays all my
'running' apps from all my activities when I require.

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