Different widgets for each Desktop missing

[volkix]

The title says it all. I searched the web a bit but couldn't find something about. Why this feature is unavailable with the new plasma desktop? Or did I miss it? So I can't set different wallpapers and and widget sets for each virtual desktops. Beside that I thought I can use activities instead of virtual desktops, however shortcut key (meta+tab) for switching to next activity doesn't work as well. Any ideas...?

[LinkBot]

Bug 343246 - plasma 5 doesn't allow different wallpapers and widgets for each virtual desktop: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343246

[LinkBot]

Plasma/5.2 Errata: https://community.kde.org/Plasma/5.2_Errata
--> Bug 342186 - Global shortcuts do not work to control activity switching: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342186

Marked as fixed with: https://projects.kde.org/projects/kd...d2294bf351e20a

The Ubuntu repository version could be older than this fix.

There are the kubuntu-ci PPA:

- https://blogs.kde.org/2014/11/20/kub...t-project-neon
- https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ci

[life0riley]

That's not good. I really liked that feature.

Here is an earlier post about it on this forum. This won't be popular with the desktop cube lovers including me.
Installing Plasma 5 in Kubuntu 14.10

They suggest using activities for this. Has anyone tried this?
Different widgets/wallpapers for different virtual desktops?

[volkix]

Thanks for the replies. It is a pity that different widget sets unavailable in KDE5. I hope it will be added ASAP.

[LinkBot]

Planet KDE: https://planetkde.org/
--> Discuss the future of the Activities and Virtual desktops: http://user-prompt.com/discuss-the-f...tual-desktops/

[Rog132]

Tested...

They suggest using activities for this. Has anyone tried this?

Yes - you could use the activities as the virtual desktops. Then you could have different widgets and applications for each activity-desktop.

[claydoh]

However, the desktop cube only works on virtual desktops, not for activities....

[life0riley]

Planet KDE: https://planetkde.org/
--> Discuss the future of the Activities and Virtual desktops: http://user-prompt.com/discuss-the-f...tual-desktops/

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