Bug 500284 - Allow individual panels to be in some or all activities
Summary: Allow individual panels to be in some or all activities
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Activities in general (show other bugs)
Version: git-stable-Plasma/6.3
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2025-02-17 22:18 UTC by Simona Pisano
Modified: 2025-02-18 17:38 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Simona Pisano 2025-02-17 22:18:51 UTC
I think that if in addition to the widgets you could choose to display/not display a panel (I have 7 on the sides of the screen), activity on kde would be really perfect. maybe leave a main panel common to all and be able to decide for all the other panels with secondary use.
Comment 1 cwo 2025-02-17 22:25:02 UTC
Thank you for the feature request!

I'm not sure I understand what it is that you are asking for. Could I ask you to add a little detail to your suggestion? What does showing/not showing a panel exactly entail? Can you give us an idea of how the choice of displaying/not displaying a panel could be presented to the user?
Comment 2 Simona Pisano 2025-02-17 22:41:33 UTC
I don't know how to describe it. On the KDE interface I see plasmoids, panels and icons. The panels are like the classic one at the bottom where there are the tray bar and the open apps
Comment 3 cwo 2025-02-17 22:44:23 UTC
(In reply to Simona Pisano from comment #2)
> I don't know how to describe it. On the KDE interface I see plasmoids,
> panels and icons. The panels are like the classic one at the bottom where
> there are the tray bar and the open apps

Yes. What would you like to happen with these panels?
Comment 4 Simona Pisano 2025-02-17 22:50:40 UTC
the idea was to be able to have these panels active or not depending on the selected Activity. I don't know if it's possible. it's just something thrown in there. It would give more functions to the Activity system
Comment 5 cwo 2025-02-17 23:06:59 UTC
(In reply to Simona Pisano from comment #4)
> the idea was to be able to have these panels active or not depending on the
> selected Activity. I don't know if it's possible. it's just something thrown
> in there. It would give more functions to the Activity system

Ah, I think I get you now. You want to be able to choose which Activities a particular panel to show on, is this correct? In a similar way to how you can e.g. pin Favorites in the Application Launcher in all activities or only some of them?

I don't know much about activities to be honest, so I can't say more about this feature. (I didn't even know this wasn't already possible). It does sound like a very reasonable request though. I'll assign it to the Activities component.
Comment 6 Simona Pisano 2025-02-17 23:08:15 UTC
yes
Comment 7 Simona Pisano 2025-02-17 23:08:39 UTC
thx
Comment 8 Nate Graham 2025-02-18 17:37:12 UTC
At the moment it's out of scope, sorry. If and when we rethink what Activities are or should be, we can probably make this happen automatically as a part of a hypothetical project to make *all* settings activity-specific. However, for that moment that's hypothetical, and Activities are more or less feature-frozen in their current state until resources for such an initiative materialize. Thanks for understanding.
Comment 9 Simona Pisano 2025-02-18 17:38:40 UTC
no problem. thx. bye.