There are so nice and huge activity "preview" images in the left activity panel - but what is a preview good for if there is nothing to preview? Those nice huge "previews" are empty, i.e. fake. They could be used to display a kind of live preview of the activity, i.e. at least the application windows (borders and symbols, just like the desktop pager), maybe the current wallpaper - something that gives you a clue about what is going on in there without having to open it. Maybe it could even be possible to move windows from one activity to another via those previews (again see desktop pager). Reproducible: Always
I've just noticed that the current wallpaper is shown if you change the default one. But the default one is not shown. But this wish is more about seeing the windows and having a pager like behaviour.
Created attachment 95117 [details] mockup This would help people like me who need to see everything and who therefore don't use activities but virtual desktops but now have to use activities if they want different widgets and wallpapers per desktop... By now I use the pager for virtual desktops to move windows around and from one desktop to another a lot, just where I need the window, near which other other window, in which combination. It would be really helpful if this would be possible with activities too as the desktops in Plasma 5 lost half of their functionality and only the activiies provide the other half (by now both own one half, would be great to have all in one again, no matter if desktop of activity).
Created attachment 95118 [details] moving windows from taskmanager to other activity (drag and drop) It would also be great if one could drag task buttons from the taskmanager onto activities in the activity sidebar to move that application window to another activity as it is possible with the virtual desktop pager. Please make the activity panel a real activity pager.
There are currently two alternative applets being worked on. The pager one (by Marco, CCed) might soon end up in kdeplasma-addons.
The activity pager has this