Hi,
I’m testing the use of activities and I generally like it. I certainly like the concept.
But what’s a pity is this: I have an Accounting Activity and a General Activity. In accounting, my mail/calendar app is open on a date in the past. When I’m not doing accounting and I open in the General Activity the mail/calendar app, it switches automatically to the Accounting Activity, even if I closed that activity.
I thought that I maybe didn’t pin the app to both Activities (taskbar), but I did.
Is this by design? Or can I fix this behaviour?
EDIT: With Firefox or LibreOffice, if I open it in a different activity, I get a new window without switching to a different activity, So I can have different Firefox windows open in different accounts. With Betterbird, that doesn’t work.
Firefox and LibreOffice allow to have multiple instances running I guess, and Betterbird not.
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Currently activities are not having as much development as far as I know. They are favouring virtual desktops, and are still deciding what to do with activities. I have noticed what you are describing too, when having one activity open and the rest closed, if I open e.g. Okular, it activates another activity in which this program was open. I don’t know if this is intended or not, I have never seen a complete tutorial on how Activities work or were meant to work, but you could try opening a bug about this, becasue I don’t think it’is a very intuitive behaviour.
I hope activities don’t cease to exist… I have come to like them, I find their approach a bit more attractive than virtual desktops, which I have never understood.
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In Okular, I could prevent that behavior by setting it to open a new document in a new window instead of a new tab.
(I never before opened a bug, I just updated to 40, so first I check if the behavior is the same and if it is, I will report my first bug 
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