Bug 464250

Summary:	Fixed activities ordering
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	fw.smit01
Component:	Activity Switcher sidebar	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	hein, ivan.cukic, nate, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.26.4
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Activities pager

Description fw.smit01 2023-01-13 18:27:03 UTC

SUMMARY
The order of activities does not follow the way you set them in the settings. It changes when you edit an activity. I'll mention one of the ways the order of activities is confusing, but it's definitely the only one. 


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Set the pager to Activities pager
2. Open the settings for activities.
3. Change an activity's name

OBSERVED RESULT
The order of activities in the pager changes

EXPECTED RESULT
The order of activities in the pager stays the same. It should also match the order they appear in the settings

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Fedora Linux 36
KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.101.0
Qt Version: 5.15.7
Kernel Version: 6.0.16-200.fc36.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × Intel® Core™ i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz
Memory: 15,4 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 630
Manufacturer: HP
Product Name: HP ZBook Studio G5

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
If one want to set shortcuts to switch to the first, second or third activity, it's a requirement to have a well-defined order. It would be good to make the order rigid, like the virtual desktops.

Comment 1 Ivan Čukić 2023-01-13 20:14:17 UTC

Activities list in the default switcher are in the most-recently-used order - like windows in alt-tab switcher. This is intentional.

If someone wants to create an option to reorder this, with it being false by default, I'd be fine with it. Until someone does, resolving issue as intentional.

Comment 2 fw.smit01 2023-01-13 21:10:53 UTC

Created attachment 155265 [details]
Activities pager

Comment 3 fw.smit01 2023-01-13 21:13:27 UTC

The Meta+tab behavior is fine to me. I'm talking about the activities pager (see attachment). I think it's valuable to have that one at least stay in a contant order, otherwise it's nearly useless. There is no clue about which activity in the pager is which until you hover over it. so the order is very important (not to mention the muscle memory).

Comment 4 Ivan Čukić 2023-01-13 21:18:31 UTC

Fair enough, moving to pager component then.

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2023-01-17 19:39:06 UTC

Yes, right now Activities order themselves by recency of use, not a fixed alphabetical order.

Comment 6 Nate Graham 2023-01-17 19:39:22 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 424648 ***