Bug 287428

Summary: Setting automatic window tabbing starts up new windows in activities other than the current one
Product: [Plasma] kwin Reporter: Dion Moult <dion>
Component: window-tabbingAssignee: KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 4.7.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description Dion Moult 2011-11-24 05:17:21 UTC
Version:           4.7.3 (using KDE 4.7.3) 
OS:                Linux

If you set automatic window tabbing, new windows should automatically be tabbed with existing windows of the same application.

However, if you have two activities running, X and Y, and Y has the app running but X doesn't, if you are currently in X and run the app, it'll appear in Y instead of X.

As a result, you don't _see_ the window unless you switch activities, which is non-intuitive.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create and run two activities, X and Y.
2. Turn on auto tab similar apps in system settings.
3. Switch to activity Y. Open an app. The app is now part of activity Y.
4. Switch to activity X. Open an app.

Actual Results:  
The app will open in activity Y.

Expected Results:  
It should open in activity X.

It's technically correct behavior, but only because it seems that automatic window tabbing isn't yet semantically aware.
Comment 1 Thomas Lübking 2012-02-02 18:34:54 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 265977 ***