https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274931
--- Comment #57 from Martin Flöser <mgraess...@kde.org> --- I'm now giving some background information: the behavior in question was implemented in 2010, that is 7 years ago! Back then the world of windows looked differently. Chromium was basically the only application which existed with client side decorations and back then it was brand new (initial release 2008 according to Wikipedia). Spotify did not yet exist, neither did GNOME use client side decorations (though Ubuntu thought about it: https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2010/05/open-letter-the-issues-with-client-side-window-decorations/ ). When introducing activities the implementation assumed that windows without decorations are in a specific way special and should be on all activities. Back then this was a valid approach and absolutely correct! Given that it does not make any sense to question the code as it is today. Yes, the way applications interact changed and the assumptions don't hold any more as general as they did back in 2010. Changing the code would be a good idea and that might happen eventually. Unfortunately it will not have any priority. Activities is still not a fully understood topic in the case of window management and the core development team is not investing time into it as long as we don't know where the road takes us. For example our Activity related code does not support Wayland yet. It's one of the last areas in KWin which is not yet adjusted for Wayland (other areas are window rules and focus stealing prevention). As long as this is not adjusted for Wayland, I don't expect anything to happen on X11. We need a general solution for the problem - we didn't find one the last seven years, I don't expect that we magically find it tomorrow. Maybe Wayland will help us to find a solution, after all we had several other areas where we could fix problems by looking at it from a different Wayland angle. But personally I don't expect that Activities will see a Wayland port anytime soon. I'm sorry for the inconvenience this issue creates for our users. But I'm also asking to not discuss it further in this bug report: it won't help. Your comments won't change the priority of this bug, I'm sorry. The priority is low as we don't know where the activities road takes us in the window manager world. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
