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Currently Plasmoids, Wallpapers, Applications are associated with Activities.

But Panels (though technically they are also Plasmoids) are not associated with the Activities.

I feel Panels also should be associated with Activities.

So if I associate Panel to current activity and then -

- If I add panel, it should be added only for current activity.
- If I remove panel, it should be removed only from current activity.
- If I make certain changes to panel (say changing Kick-off to Lancelot) it should be applicable only for current activity.

If I don't associate panel to any activity, then the changes would be global.

I would prefer activity sensitive plasmoid - it is tabbed desktop/plasmoid, but tabs are invisible. It will automatically changed on activity switching.

I have written bug reports with similar wish and few times asked same things with plasma developers blogs but the answer has been "No".

My wanted idea was to have a different panel setups for different virtual desktops and activities.

I really would need a way to have different virtual desktops (VD's) (without activities as I do not need them at all) with different panel setups.

VD1 with 1 panel at bottom
VD2 with 2 panel at one bottom and other at top
VD3 with 1 panel at side of the screen
VD4 with 1 panel at bottom and set as autohide

And every VD would have different set of widgets in the panels and every panel with different configurations (autohide/size etc).

As I do not understand that why every virtual desktop or every activity should have same widgets in the panel and same panels. As if I make a panel with shortcuts for graphic applications, folder views for different folders in it and even set panels to autohide or specific location/size and by any matter I customize the virtual desktop to specific function. That I am forced to share the same setup with all activities and all virtual desktops!

It really ruins the whole idea of the virtual desktops and activities!

The answer from developers now seems to be 'Sure, but we need someone to work on it'.

It would be nice if panels had a similar interface as windows for associating them to activities, and I think it would fit well with the overall concept of activities. Different panels for different virtual desktops - no thanks, unless you use different activities for each virtual desktop.

Hans wrote:The answer from developers now seems to be 'Sure, but we need someone to work on it'.

It would be nice if panels had a similar interface as windows for associating them to activities, and I think it would fit well with the overall concept of activities. Different panels for different virtual desktops - no thanks, unless you use different activities for each virtual desktop.

I would not like to have different activities to get different panel configs. As I do not want to add new clutter what would come between me and my tasks.

If I would tie different activities to different virtual desktops. Then I could not simply move window from one virtual desktop to another. That is going being the limit.

For this far, the activities are more a pure technology without any promises and needs.

As virtual desktops right now allows us to really easily have a different tasks so user does not get distracted (if not counting the currently flawed notification system what needs to be fixed).

I have a laptop with a touchscreen and keyboard. When I have the screen rotated to tablet mode I need an autohide panel with the onscreen keyboard. When I have it in normal laptiop mode, I really *don't* want a panel popping up at the bottom of the screen with a large onscreen keyboard.

The ability to have different panel layouts per activity is very important to me.

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