https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464449
Bug ID: 464449
Summary: New activities in terms of existing ones
Classification: Plasma
Product: kactivitymanagerd
Version: unspecified
Platform: OpenSUSE
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
By default, a newly created activity contains a black wallpaper (or rather, no
wallpaper), uses the Folder View layout, and contains absolutely no widgets.
(The wallpaper and layout may be defaults of openSUSE, but that's irrelevant).
I have a set of guidelines for how plasma widgets are placed, sized, and
configured on most of my activities. However, the creation of a new activity
means that I have to insert the same set of widgets, as per the guidelines, all
over again, and configure them, size them, and place them.
I hope it's understandable that this causes the creation of new activities that
have the same "spirit" as other activities (disregarding any particular
modifications or customizations I make for that particular activity) rather
painfully long and boring, not to mention unproductive.
Thus, the whole process of creating a new activity either becomes rather
expensive and I'd want to avoid doing it, or I have to customize each and every
new activity manually every time I create one.
It would be reasonable if one could define, at activity creation time, whether
it should be a "clone" of an existing one. For instance, I may maintain a plain
activity that contains the customizations that I'd want to have in each
activity (let's call this particular activity "plain"), then whenever I may
want to create a new activity (let's call this "new"), I choose one of the
existing activities ("plain" in this case), and the newly created activity,
"new", may be indistinguishable from "plain", apart from the fact that the
activity manager says they both have different names and treats them as
distinct.
Thus, I could use existing activities as templates for newly created
activities, and I could either apply additional, unique customizations, or I
may just stick to how the activity looks, since it already looks a lot like how
I'd want it to be.
OBSERVED RESULT
The process of customizing activities is too manual, and it's kind of
impossible to automatically specify how newly created activities should look
like (that is, what other activity it should look like).
EXPECTED RESULT
An option to specify what other existing activity the to be created activity
should look like, what widgets and customiztaions to apply from the existing
one, etc.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: openSUSE Tumbleweed
KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.101.0
Qt Version: 5.17.7
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
We may take this a step further and define templates, which are just snapshots
of how a particular activity looks like, is customized, what widgets it has, at
a particular point of time, and the template be saved locally, independently
from the original activity that created it.
Thus, we don't need to have the "template activity" as an existing activity
every time we want to "clone" it. Instead, we permanently maintain how it is as
a local snapshot, which can be used independent of the original activity.
Such templates may be exported as an independent file (or archive), containing
all the necessary information. This exported file may then be transferred to
different systems, and each one of them, using this file, could recreate the
original activity.
Further, we may choose which widgets we may want to clone from the template
activity, if we could consider widgets as uniquely identified objects on a grid
(the desktop, in this case). In that case, we would have full control over
which widgets get copied, and which to leave out.
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