http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30517
Bug #: 30517 Summary: MS Office 2007 applications are always on all activities in KDE, they don't have option to select activity Product: Wine Version: 1.5.2 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: katonag@gmail.com Classification: Unclassified
KDE 4 has a feature set called activities. Activities are different from virtual desktops, as they provide separate workspaces for separate workflows. Additionally the possibility for virtual desktops are also present.
MS Office 2007 applications (Word, Excel, Powerpoint tested) somehow break this feature, and they always appear on all activities, whereas they honor the virtual desktops. Normally all windows have the option to select which virtual desktop and which activity they should appear on, but MSO 2007 apps lack the setting for choosing the activity because of the unusual titlebar*. This wouldn't be a serious problem, if they wouldn't appear on all activities by default. Normal apps (even windows apps) appear on the activity they are started from by default.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Setup KDE to have at least 2 activities. 2. Start e.g. Word2007 on one activity, and also start some other apps (windows or native Linux, normally doesn't matter) 3. Change activity. Now the second app is not visible, because it remained in activity1, but Word 2007 is still visible. 4. Go back to activity1.
* A related (but not same) bug has been filed to KDE Bugtracking system: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298805