• Window Behavior: A rolldown window that shows with a hotkey on the "active monitor". Just like Yakuake.
• Window Theme: Nothing fancy, but it would be neat to be able to change colors. Transparency would be nice.
• Widget Behavior: I'd like for it to act like a "widget group" (similar to a grid/floating group you get on certain panels/desktops. I'd like to choose multiple widgets of different types.
• Effectively Multiple: I'm going to want to set up multiple of these. I don't mind if it's a single tabbed window and you can set a hotkey to summon the window to a pre-set tab. That's cool. That would be like Yakuake where you had a hotkey to a specific session tab.
  
  But if it's multiple widgets/apps, that's also cool.

Effectively I just want to see multiple dashboards

• ctrl+alt+1: system themed widgets
• ctrl+alt+2: programming themed widgets
• ctrl+alt+3: personal/news
• ctrl+alt+4: work widgets
• ctrl+alt+5: comics
• ctrl+alt+5: KDE stuff

Is there an existing solution? A group of settings? an app or widgets?
I can almost get there with panels, but they stay stuck to a monitor and show when the mouse gets close.

couldn't you do something with multiple desktops where "different widgets for each desktop" is checked in systemsettings or with multiple activities?

I don't have any fully isolated workflows to make much use of activities. I tried and it caused problems because both activities would be accessing the same applications for different purposes. Then when activities bled over, sharing the apps/data became a hassle.

It seems really alien to me that you'd have a single task with no bleed over. The best I can think of is a "home" and "work" activity. They shouldn't bleed over, though it gets fuzzy when you do python programming for both work/home.

Multiple Desktops help a lot for managing where applications are grouped in use. I use those a lot.
But I still have dashboards (widget groupings) that I'd want to call up from any of them.

I wouldn't want to recreate my calendar/clock/ system shortcuts/ system notes on multiple dashboards.
I wouldn't want to see my work development dashboard when working on home development, but there is a full subset of widgets I'd need for both dashboards since they're both similar to a point.

I get the feeling that Desktop Dashboards would work if I had an option to encapsulate behaviors into a widget (so it's now a widget called "programming dashboard", which itself is a dozen or so widgets) that I can drop on two different dashboards. Still I can see tetris like issues of making sure the sizes/shapes were compatible.


Part of the issue behind wanting it as a rolldown is that since I'm using a laptop, I'll have 3-4 different monitor configurations in a day.

• 1x 1600x900
• 1x 1600x900+1x1920x1200
• 1x 1600x900+1x1080p
• 1x 1600x900+2x1080p

I understand that this an edge case, but not totally unheard of to use a laptop as a mobile desktop (not always a 1 screen laptop) and having different resolutions for multiple displays.
So I run into issues with a fullscreen dashboard flipping out that one screen is larger than another. Sometimes it destroys the dashboard, sometimes it offsets it and the laptop screen so the dashboard is off screen and I can get at the widgets until I hook the higher res monitor again.
I don't expect KDE to handle this perfectly, I'm just looking for a way to manage my workflow within the quirks I experience.