mart added inline comments. INLINE COMMENTS
> graesslin wrote in org_kde_plasma_virtual_desktop.xml:45 > Please note that your quick way would not work. Activities are disabled in > KWin Wayland and I don't see them getting enabled again. Activities resulted > in hard freezes several times and I don't trust them due to that. As > maintainer I would need very convincing arguments on why activities won't > break KWin again. Due to the fact that kamd speaks both dbus and windowing > protocol I don't see a chance that KWin can rely on it. > > Due to the fact that activities used to block KWin it's an area which is > completely not ported to Wayland yet. A Wayland window cannot be put on an > activity. So this would require a significant amount of work. This also > doesn't match anything we have in KWin to move forward. Activities have been > in an unmaintained state since the start and the code is in a really bad > state. None of the core KWin developers have touched it in the last year's. > It's just a bad copy and paste of virtual desktops without any understanding > of the domain. I do not want to see any future code being based on that. In > KWin we started to evolve virtual desktops, so that in future it would be > possible to implement the feature set of activities in virtual desktops. But > for the time being it would mean X11 identifiers, that is numerical desktops. > > I put know out an interesting question: do we need layouts? well, i'm not really talking about the current activity code in kwin, but just a 1:1 mapping for the user, for which i was expecting different code to be written. if the 1:1 mapping happens on kwin side, or on plasma/kactivities side trying to sync itself to desktops (in this case the protocol would need also adddesktop/removedesktop methods, then kwin wouldn't need to use kactivities directly, the sync can be done client side. but i don't want the user to see any difference anymore for the two concepts anymore. REPOSITORY R127 KWayland REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D12820 To: mart, #kwin, #plasma, graesslin, hein Cc: zzag, bshah, romangg, kde-frameworks-devel, michaelh, ngraham, bruns
