Hi,

I just got KDE 4.9 on my Kubuntu. Nice surprise!

In the Plasma Workspace announcementhttp://kde.org/announcements/4.9/plasma.php I could read
"including the addition of Activity-related window rules"

So is it possible to link a certain windows to a certain activity? In my specific case I would like to make inkscape, gimp and kile always open in the same activity, no matter from which activity I open it.

The problem I encountered is that I am in one activity and start, lets say, Gimp. The splash pops up and I switch the activity to check emails while gimp starts. But the splash follows and when gimp finally appears it ends up on my email activity, and I need to first add my intended activity and then remove the email activity.

Using window rules you can set activities to "force" so that the window will always appear in the selected activity. I have no idea what would happen if the activity was not running, though.

Now I found it. There were just too many options so I did not notice "Activity". I use "apply initially", so I guess it can be manually changed afterwards.
I tried starting from Search&Launch activity while the Kile activity was off.

Super + Q showed that kile is still off, but when switching to it the kile window was there. Is there a comprehensive documentation about this in some wiki? Whats the difference between "Special Window Settings..." and "Special Application Settings..."?





I also noticed: After starting kile later on and going to the settings as shown in the first screenhsot the activity setting was deactivated. Instead I had to go to System Settings -> Window Behavior -> Window Rules (coming back to the difference between Window and Application above: There are no "Application" rules).