Plasma/Activities: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 19:53, 12 September 2010

the plasma side of activities...

when plasma is locked, the activitymanager runs away. it shouldn't do that; instead it should disable the add/remove buttons (and maybe stop/play too?)
we need a way to rename and set icon from the activity manager, inline. that's the stuff that was in the containment config for 4.5
support switching to other-screen containments (explained better on the Multiscreen page
templates are only half-implemented. there's no js way to create a new activity, only new containment. what we need is a mode (and way to set it) in plasmaapp that creates a new activity and says that new containments will be autoassigned to that activity. then when the script is done creating containments we unset the mode (and probably do a sanity check on the activity).

activity manager doesn't show which activity is the current one. some sort of pretty highlight or something would be nice.
those remove/stop buttons could be a lot prettier. hover effects n'stuff
random wallpaper when creating a new containment?
prettify the search filter?

View::swapContainment could do with cleanup like Activity::open.
we should hack something into Context so that it keeps the activity name in sync itself, instead of relying on Activity while KActivity* is in kdebase
Activity could pay better attention to its containments, in case they get moved around by something else... it kinda assumes that it has full control when it doesn't.

sorting of the activities (probably by last activation?)
'running'/'stopped' categories that scroll to the first running/stopped activity
something in the panel that tells me what activity I'm on and lets me switch quickly
dataengine? (what are use cases? how much easier than ActivityConsumer is it?)

iirc some effects leave 'holes' for windows on other activities. need to check if anyone solved that

special window rules for activities, for those stubborn apps that will never play well (might want to wait until session support is in though)

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 ====functionality====
 * when plasma is locked, the activitymanager runs away. it shouldn't do that; instead it should disable the add/remove buttons (and maybe stop/play too?)
-* we need a way to rename and set icon from the activity manager. that's the stuff that was in the containment config for 4.5
+* we need a way to rename and set icon from the activity manager, inline. that's the stuff that was in the containment config for 4.5
 * support switching to other-screen containments (explained better on the [[Plasma/Multiscreen|Multiscreen page]]
-* templates are only half-implemented. there's no js way to create a new activity, only new containment iirc
+* templates are only half-implemented. there's no js way to create a new activity, only new containment. what we need is a mode (and way to set it) in plasmaapp that creates a new activity and says that new containments will be autoassigned to that activity. then when the script is done creating containments we unset the mode (and probably do a sanity check on the activity).
 ====polish====