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Hello

I work with four desktop and 2 panels. one panel on the bottom and one on the right side. Sizeof the monitor is 1200 x 1600 pixels.
The bottom one is used for starters for all general apps, like Krusader, Gparted, the console, Kalarm, KSnapShot, etc
The side panels has the starter icons for the workdesktop.

1: General work: LibreOffice: Writer, Calc, Impress, Calibre, KMyMoney
2: Internet: Firefox, Thunderbird, GoogleEarth, Filezilla, etc
3: Audio/Video: Kafffeine, Audacity, Amarok, TV-Browser, some games I may use during watshing Satellite TV
4: Graphic: Gimp, Digikam, Hugin, Inkscape, Scribus, Kompozer, Hugin, Kruler, etc.
And on the bottom are the icons for the opened windows.

As I like to work in portrait (exception is desktop 4, Graphic) I have all apps grouped according to the 1 to 4 with a small spacer in between. However, when I change to landscape, the space for all my starters is not enough.

It would be an enormous help, if it would be possible to configure the additional panels according to the theme of a desktop, like we already have with a difffent background for each desktop.

I now hope to find a lot of support and join screen shot of a portrait and a landscape desktop.

I just wanted to note, that workflow described in this idea perfectly fits to activities (use four different activities for different tasks).
But it is not possible to use different panel(s) settings per Activity, so I totally support this idea.

It's just since KDE is focusing on activities, it may be that developers are more willing to implement "panel per activity" feature than "panel per desktop" feature.

Thank you for your support.
Any idea, where I can learn about Activities? Possibly in German.

Arran wrote:Any idea, where I can learn about Activities? Possibly in German.

My big plan for next 12 months is to improve my German, but right now it is far too basic to even understand German posts about Activities. Sorry.
As for English, there are bunch of better and worse posts flying around. I would suggest:
http://hanschen.org/2009/11/17/how-do-y ... ctivities/
http://www.datamation.com/open-source/t ... ies-1.html
http://chani.wordpress.com/category/activities/ (some posts here are about technical details behind Activities, so you may want to skip them; also, there are screencasts)
Just yesterday one user of this forum posted link to screencast explaining Activities. I did not yet had time to watch this, though, so I have no idea about quality.

Hope that helps.

This is a fantastic idea. Not necessarily for virtual desktops but awesome for activities since they already have their own widgets and desktop settings. It's a natural progression for creating task oriented activities,

Here is how:
1. place a new panel.
2. add to the panel the plasmowidgets you want visible in ALL desktops/activities. You could choose none (empty panel)
3. minimize the dimensions of the panel.
4. use the empty unused space the panel provides on the desktop to add desktop widgets or whatsoever.

So i am not for this idea EXCEPT if it is going to reduce cpu cycles.

I would also like to have Panel per Activity customization feature so much!
Don't anyone knows, any progress/work on this topic upstream?

I know there is a related bug:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292094

But don't know if any work was done either in KDE4 or in Plasma5...

Is there currently a way to assign different activities to different physical screens? That would be extremely helpful for my workflow.