https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501326
Bug ID: 501326
Summary: Activating an app on a different virtual desktop
always switches to that VD or does nothing
Classification: Plasma
Product: kwin
Version: 6.3.2
Platform: Neon
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: kwin-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: sephiroth...@hotmail.it
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
In Plasma 6, the behaviour when activating an application on a different
virtual desktop (VD for brevity) falls under three cases:
- the app is activated and the VD switches to the one where the app is;
- the app is brought to the current VD;
- nothing happens.
This is true regardless of whether an app activates another (as an example,
clicking on a link in Matrix opens a new tab in Firefox) or whether you click
on the app's icon in the task manager.
However, this is not how it was until Plasma 5. The way it worked was that the
setting for application activation was only relevant in the context of an
app-based activation; even when set to "nothing happens", clicking on an app's
icon in the task manager would activate it and switch the view to the
corresponding VD. This was an intuitive implementation of "do nothing" and
allowed for cases where you have, as an example, a messaging application on VD1
and a browser on VD2, and having multiple links to click in the messaging
application does not force you to do back and forth between VDs, but you can
still switch to the browser easily by clicking on its icon in the task manager.
The new Plasma 6 behaviour, on the other hand, just looks broken.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Set the virtual desktop behaviour to "do nothing"
2. Click on an application's icon in the task manager
OBSERVED RESULT
Nothing happens.
EXPECTED RESULT
The view switches to the application's virtual desktop and the window is
brought to the fore.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE Neon
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.11.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
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