Bug 496472

Summary: Hide windows from stopped activities from task switcher
Product: [Plasma] kwin Reporter: Jiří Wolker <woljiri>
Component: activitiesAssignee: KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: woljiri
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.1.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Jiří Wolker 2024-11-19 20:00:38 UTC 
SUMMARY

Stopping an activity can be thought as a thing that an user does when they do not temporarily need to use the activity. Window switcher can be restricted to show windows only from the current or all other activities. I would like to have an option to not show windows from stopped activities, since these are the windows which I do not use.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Have multiple activities and some windows open in one of them.
2. Switch to another activity, stop the original one.
3. Use window switcher (e.g. Alt-Tab).

OBSERVED RESULT

Unless the switcher is configured to show windows only from the current activity, it allows switching to windows from the stopped activity. This un-stops the activity, switches to it and brings the window to the foreground.

EXPECTED RESULT

Checkbox like „[√] Hide windows from stopped activities“ in the switcher settings.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
KDE Plasma Version: Plasma 6.1.5
KWin 6.1.5, X.Org