CWM030:

I suspect that there is something wrong with your configuration. I do not have that issue on Kubuntu 16.04. I have not yet installed 18.04.

_CWM030_ wrote:What annoyed me was, when you decide to switch to another activity, the application in the activity that you're switching away from gets minimized to the task bar! UGH STOP IT!

Could you provide more details about this? What method are you using to switch activities?

Is it that when you are on one activity, the windows for the other activities still show up in the taskbar (as though they were minimized, but when you switch to the activity they are on they are still showing in their last position; and if you click on the item in the taskbar then it switches to the activity that window was on)? If this is the case you should double-check the taskbar settings to make sure that it is only showing tasks for the current activity.

Or is it that when you switch to another activity and then switch back the windows that you had open are now minimized? If this is the case then that sounds like a really weird bug that I haven't seen before.

In my experience, Activities are completely useless. They were supposed to improve workflow. They do not.

The idea was to create different workspaces for different types of work, e.g. in one activity you might be working working with photos, another browsing the web, another using email or chat. Each activity would be functionally separate, unlike virtual desktops, but switching from one to another would be fast and simple. The most often used applications could be "pinned" to their respective activity and they would automatically be loaded and ready to use every time you logged in.

Unfortunately, after many years of development this still does not work. As I posted previously (different forum topic?) applications DO NOT stay pinned to their activity. I've been using Plasma since version 4.6 and am now running version 5.12 and with every version between I've had this problem. Applications seemingly switch activities, or more commonly, open up in EVERY activity in an apparently random manner. That is, it doesn't happen at every login. It does happen often enough that I simply deleted all my activities and started using virtual desktops again. I miss not be able to change wallpapers, but my applications ALWAYS open in the desktop I expect them to open in. Furthermore, I don't have to "pin" them as I did with activities, which didn't work anyway. Their location is simply remembered.

In short, virtual desktops do exactly what activities are supposed to do and they do it more reliably.

Hello

Sorry for digging up this old thread, but I'm new to KDE ... and as I've read, yes I've become lost inbetween everything ... but trying to wrap my senses around it to make it productive.

I got a question though, thinking some of you might have had some good experience in it now ... how much resouces (memory ram, cpu etc) does Activities use? Also comparing Activities to Virtual Desktops regarding resource usage?
I read some are using a huge amount of activities and VDs ... doesnt that suck up memory in the background?
I keen to use these but want to do graphic work in Krita etc, but concerned how much it will effect it resource wise.

TIA