Bug 514651

Summary:	[Feature request] Different virtual desktop names for each activity
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Gauthier <g.guerin>
Component:	activities	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kde, kdedev
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.5.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Gauthier 2026-01-15 14:57:37 UTC

Hello, just thought it could be useful to be able to name the virtual desktops independently for each activity so that each desktop can be used for specific (sub)project within each activity. Currently it isn;t possible as VDs have the name in all activities. 

I imagine this is not so easy to do with the current implementation and interrelation between VDs and Activities (as I think think there are basically/mostly independent) but I thought to put it out there for when the implementation changes.

Operating System: Fedora Linux 43
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.22.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 6.18.4-200.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 258V
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (30.9 GiB usable)

Comment 1 TraceyC 2026-01-16 20:46:55 UTC

I agree with this request. Since Activities are supposed to represent different contexts. So the VD names that apply to one context might be completely unrelated to another.

Comment 2 David Edmundson 2026-01-21 14:43:02 UTC

The future of activities is not entirely clear.  Once we go wayland only we want to change the way these interact. 

One current proposal is making it so each VD lives on only one activity implicitly fixing this.

Comment 3 David Edmundson 2026-01-21 14:43:27 UTC

I don't want us to make any other changes in the interim that complicate things.

Comment 4 Gauthier 2026-01-30 09:21:48 UTC

(In reply to David Edmundson from comment #3)
> I don't want us to make any other changes in the interim that complicate
> things.

Hi David,

Thank you for the response. 

> I don't want us to make any other changes in the interim that complicate things.
As suggested in my OP I wasn't necessarily expecting changes to happen with the current implementation but more as something to keep in mind when the implementation of VD and/or Activities changes in the future.

> One current proposal is making it so each VD lives on only one activity
I know I'm only one user but I would find it very sad if this is where it ends, as it is currently very useful (if not essential) to have multiple VDs per activity. 

> implicitly fixing this.
You could say that but it would only "fix" it by removing the function altogether which, well, isn't really what this bug report is about. And I really wouldn't want for this bug report to be used to justify any kind of inconsistency of the current implementation. This was not criticising the current implementation, only asking for an improvement to make it even better...(and was certainly not asking a change which would feel like a regress to me).