Version: (using KDE Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources Currently I have three different users in my computer: one for work, one for studying and one for free time activities. This makes working and studying more efficient because I can maintain for example different desktop settings and bookmarks for studying and working purposes. However this approach have some disadvantages too. One of them is that as a work user I cannot access the files I've created as a studying user without changing the rights manually. The other is that changing from working user to studying user is quite slow. It would be lovely to be able to create many desktops for one user. And I'm not talking about current virtual desktops; I'm talking about the whole bunch of desktop configurations including icons, browser bookmarks and virtual desktops. I could login with one username and change between different roles (working me, studying me, relazing me) just by changing the desktop settings. The creation and saving of the desktops could be analogous to creating snapshost of different virtual machines and reusing them. Changing from student to working me would be as simple as just changing the desktop settings or "skin". There would no longer be need to change the user as well. I can imagine other usage for this feature as well. One could for example have different desktop skins for the dark nights and sunny mornings and one could change dekstop settings without logging out and in again as a different user. They already have an almost similar feature in Enlightenment 0.16: workspaces. However this would be more sophisticated version of it including _all_ desktop configurations one can imagine. So pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease, may I have this feature! And a pony as well.
This is basically the activities of plasma, it is work in progress, anyway I don't close it and forward it to plasma.
*** Bug 154466 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
the activities are pretty much what you want