https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341143
--- Comment #315 from Gerry Makaro aka Fraser_Bell <fraser_b...@opensuse.org> --- (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #314) > You don't close an open bug just because it hasn't gotten implemented yet > and people are frustrated by this. If you want the honest truth, here it is: > > We know that this is an irritation and we do want to fix it. However doing > so requires untangling some of the code behind the Activities feature, > which is where per/workspace wallpapers got moved to during a prior Plasma > version. We understand how that this was probably a mistake, and that > Activities unfortunately never got the proper support and took off like we'd > hoped, and we want to merge the functionality of Activities back into > Virtual Desktops, possibly under the new umbrella name "Workspaces" or > something like that. This merge would result in the feature having both the > features of Virtual Desktops and also Activities. We discussed this a lot at > Akademy 2018 but the work got delayed by other matters, sorry about that. We > hope to pick it up again, and in either case it's a requirement before we > can call Wayland done (which takes on an elevated level of importance now > that it's been selected as a community goal). > > It's super duper frustrating to have to wait so long. I understand and > sympathize. I'm going to have to ask for a bit more patience though, because > we want to fix this in the right way, which takes a bit longer than just > hacking it back in quickly. Okay, now this is a very good explanation of what is going on. So, once this gets worked out, the feature will be back in some future version of the desktop. Explanations like this and a "Where we're at ..." post on occasion would help mitigate some of the frustration, I think. Thanks -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
