I noticed that the Activity Switcher shows always the current activity to be the first one. My opinion is that this shouldnt happen. I would propose that current activity should just remain at its position and only to get highlighted (this is the default Meta+Tab behavior when changing activities). Cons of current behavior: - the user's mental model for the activities order is broken every time that the active activity is changed - the activities' order does not correspond with other places they are shown for example at the activity pager I dont know if this is a design decision but I would like a lot to have your feedback. Personally because of the current behavior every time I open the "Activities Switcher" I dont expect to see something specific, I have to search for the activity to interact with. Reproducible: Always
sounds sensible
Hi Michail, The list is sorted to have the most recently used activities first. And that *is* the design decision taken collectively at one of the previous Plasma developer sprints. The switcher sorts the list in the same way Alt+Tab sorts the windows. Cheers, Ivan
Hello Ivan, so could you please give me your opinion how the situation with the activity pager should be sorted out? The current situation is the following, if a user has the activity pager in its panel there are situations that the activity pager highlights the last activity and the activity switcher always the first one... I dont know, at least for me this is confusing. Either way you are the maintainers you are deciding... regards, michail
The default switcher is designed to behave like alt-tab - and just like alt-tab it can show items in a different order to other places (alt-tab shows most recent windows first, unlike the task manager on the panel). The activity pager is an alternative (not a part of the main Plasma experience, as it is in the kdeplasma-addons and not a part of plasma) activity switcher which does things in a different way. If you like the activities to be ordered by name, you can use it instead of the meta+q switcher. I hope someone will port the various alternative activity switchers[1] from Plasma 4 to Plasma 5 which would provide more alternatives for this. [1] Like this one - I actually used this instead of the default one in Plasma 4: https://store.kde.org/content/show.php/Activity+Manager+Plasmoid?content=136278