Bug 251614

Summary:	Drag and drop (manual) sorting of activities
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Wouter Haffmans <wouter>
Component:	activities	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	chanika, chgonzalezg, chris.kerr, KaiUweBroulik2, kretz, subscriber, wstephenson
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Unlisted Binaries
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	kactivitymanagerd ListActivities sorts by key

Description Wouter Haffmans 2010-09-17 21:47:30 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.1) 
OS:                Linux

First of all, I must say 4.5 really made me use activities, great work!

Currently it does not seem to be possible to sort the activities in the activity bar (toolbox -> activities). I have some activities related to personal projects, others are study related and finally I have some work related activities.

I would like to be able to group these logically, but currently there is no UI to change the ordering of the activities. 

Personally I more or less expected to be able to drag-and-drop the items in the activity bar to change their order.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add/create several activities
2. Try to sort them in the activity bar, by dragging them


Actual Results:  
Dragging activities is not possible.

Expected Results:  
When dragging an activity should 

I use Arch linux (x86_64), with the "regular" kde (not kdemod).

Comment 1 Chani 2010-12-01 20:10:17 UTC

yes, this is likely to happen. it's just a matter of someone finding time to do the work. :) *hopefully* for 4.7?

Comment 2 Gregor Tätzner 2011-12-03 13:35:44 UTC

*** Bug 261193 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 mau 2013-11-27 08:55:40 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 4 Matthias Kretz 2014-06-29 21:00:18 UTC

Created attachment 87480 [details]
kactivitymanagerd ListActivities sorts by key

I did a very crude hack to have some form of sorting. It sorts by UID of the activities. I don't think it's very usable. But at least it's not the arbitrary QHash sort order anymore.

I guess sorting by name of the activity would be a somewhat more usable hack. I'll look into that to have at least something...

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 20:06:20 UTC

Hello!

This feature request was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this feature request is already implemented in Plasma 5, or is no longer applicable.

Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this feature request. If the requested feature is still desired but not implemented in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting

If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging

Thanks for your understanding!

Nate Graham