#2337 NORM Untriag: Switching between activities

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#2337: Switching between activities
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 Reporter:  bert              |       Owner:  Eben     
     Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  Untriaged
Component:  interface-design  |     Version:           
 Keywords:                    |    Verified:  0        
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 It's cumbersome to always have to go to the donut to switch between
 activities, in particular when copying and pasting between activities.
 Alt-N and Alt-P help a little, but are not discoverable (they also always
 cycle through all instances). I am always tempted to click the activity
 icon in the frame to switch to a different activity.

 So why not make that activity bar switch to the activity if it was already
 started? I'd argue that usually, one instance of an activity is enough. If
 we want to open a second instance that could be solved in various ways.

 For example, when we click an activity icon while the activity is already
 the current one, make a new instance. Also, alt-click could always launch
 a new instance. And maybe provide an icon in the activity toolbar.

 And while we're at that, why not make that activity icon in the frame a
 drop target? Or at least dragging over that icon could switch to the
 (already running) activity.

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Ticket URL: <https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2337>
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