Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.6.5) OS: Linux KDE is already very customizable, I found one feature lacking. I would like the ability to set different panel layouts/sizes on different activities. I am trying to create an activity that would be primarily for running Windows programs using the Seamless Mode in VirtualBox. I want (for example) to have the Windows taskbar on the bottom and a much smaller KDE Panel in the top left corner for manipulating Linux/KDE tasks. On the primary activity, I want a full length KDE panel along the bottom. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Create new activity. Switch to it. Move and/or resize panel. Return to previous activity. Actual Results: The modifications to the panel are present across all activities. Expected Results: Each activity should have a unique panel layout (just as the desktop layouts can be unique). This test was performed using Knoppix 6.7.1 (plasma-desktop 4.6.5).
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Seconded - it would be insanely useful to have a different task manager (aka icononly task manager) with different launcher per activity. For me it would make activities truely useful.
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(In reply to comment #3) Would be good to also allow configuring an activity with no panels.Sort of a kiosk mode - useful to create a 'sandbox' for kids.
I think this feature will be an excellent integration to KDE. It's annoying to create a panel in a specific activity and see it in other one.
Yes, i agree to this featuring request too
Yes, desktop activities would be much more useful if it were possible to have different panel configurations.
Yes, I really need it. At work, I connect an external monitor to my laptop and use a customized activity for it and I need to be able to have different set off panels for using on single monitor and double monitor.
It would be great, if activities could have different panels. I would create activity "KDE-like" and "Mac OS X-like". The first would have panel with taskbar on the bottom, the second would have Cairo-Dock and panel on the top with Plasma-Widget-Menubar. Frankly, this would be the only purpose for activities to exist for me. The very good purpose.
(In reply to comment #11) > It would be great, if activities could have different panels. I would create > activity "KDE-like" and "Mac OS X-like". The first would have panel with > taskbar on the bottom, the second would have Cairo-Dock and panel on the top > with Plasma-Widget-Menubar. Frankly, this would be the only purpose for > activities to exist for me. The very good purpose. Reply to my comment. For me activities would be potentially the way to make KDE an universal desktop environment, which can have simultaneously more than one desktop layout, switching between them using activities. One could have activities to mimic Unity, GNOME 3, Windows, Mac OS X, and switch between them easily.
This still exists in 4.11.15. This is way too good of a feature to not have.
This would be amazingly great. Hope it will be included in Plasma Next.
That feature missing is the only thing that keeps me from embracing activities. Different Panels per Activity is definitely needed if you want to manage truly different activities. Up until now, you can use multiple desktops with almost the same results...
I'm missing this feature as well - that would be the best invention after activities itself!
These Activities to me always seemed like a separation i personally would'nt need, until i wanted to have a separate panel setup. KDE definitely needs that feature somewhere.
In the same boat as Jonas. However I noticed I could use a significantly different panel configuration for when my laptop is docked (with two extra displays) and on the go. Should this bug be extended to cover plasma5 as well?
As one of the reporters (and users) I thank for the support. It's been a few years now that my desktop 'Activities' are being hampered by inflexible panel settings. Effectively, in future - should we ever have a unified desktop, this can become more pressing, when the screen can be a 5" smartphone display, and a 24" office screen. Then we will have two totally different desktops, and nothing easier than a resolution/screen size dependent Activity. Therefore the Activities ought to allow a set of Activities defined by scratch and completely independent.
That feature would SO NICE to have! Is it under construction? Does Plasma 5 introduce different panels configuration for different activities?
So far I couldn't see a way to configure per activity panels on plasma5. I would vote to extend this bug to plasma 5 as it's a feature, I find severely lacking. Especially if you want to have a specific activity to draw with a graphics tablet, you can really profit from using panels with a window switcher with big symbols.
Hello devs, please could you change the product of this bug to plasmashell or other Plasma 5.x sub-project? Currently the bug report has the product listed as "plasma4", but this bug/feature request is currently in plasmashell (Plasma 5.x technology).
Please read bug 373705 comment #1.
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
By coincidence, several VDG people independently requested this recently.
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Given that this was previously closed and that there has no been any progress whatsoever since it has been re-opened, I'm closing this again. In general it seems like Activities should be re-descussed in their expected usage, with more elements than just this change.
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Ultimately the direction we're moving towards is to allow all apps (Plasma included) to either use a global set of settings that transcend all activities, or to opt into activity-specific settings. That would effectively implement this, plus a lot more instances where you might want a Plasma behavior or configuration to be per-activity. FWIW as a matter of process, "NOT A BUG" is not the correct resolution; to communicate "we decided not to implement or fix this, even though we could, you use "INTENTIONAL". Also from a social angle, marking a bug report with 5 duplicates as RESOLVED INTENTIONAL is going to get a lot of negativity thrown your way. Just saying that from experience. :) So I might recommend changing to RESOLVED LATER, since it will indeed be resolved later once the proposed big Activities refresh happens for Plasma 6 (hopefully).