Bug 232214

Summary:	plasma sometines invents a new generic activity
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Martin Steigerwald <Martin>
Component:	activities	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	aseigo, asraniel
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	232215
Attachments:	example of such an invented activity

Description Martin Steigerwald 2010-03-26 12:46:31 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.4.1)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

I have four activities, each one on one desktop:

+---------------- +----------------+
| 1: Information  | 2:Documents    |
|                 |                |
|                 |                |
+-----------------+----------------+
| 3:Communication | 4:System       |
|                 |                |
|                 |                |
+-----------------+----------------+

Nonetheless, when I try to configure or fix up the messup that Plasma does to my activity setup from time to time (see bug #232172, bug #232203), Plasma sometimes invents a new generic activities. Its almost impossible to just have those four activities. One of them assigned to each of the desktop just as shown above.

I found this in KDE 4.3 upto 4.3.4 already and don't bother to delete such generic activities anymore.

Expected results: Again just let the activity/desktop setup stay as I set it. I *know* what I am doing. Period. No offence meant. Its just right now I do not feel much motivitation to use Plasma activities anymore.

Comment 1 Martin Steigerwald 2010-03-26 13:04:13 UTC

Created attachment 42273 [details]
example of such an invented activity

When I remove Plasma re-adds it a second afterwards again.

Whats going on here? If Plasma needs some standard activity to choose for desktops that have no otherwise assigned activity it should do at least two things:

1) Mark it as a standard / default activity so that I know that.

2) Don't let me delete it. Yes, here as an exception I agree that Plasma shouldn't let me do something.

But aside from that I have 4 desktops and 4 activities, so I don't get why it needs a fifth activity at all. If I created a new desktop Plasma could create a new activity for me. But as long as I have as much activities as desktops I think it should leave me alone.

Comment 2 Beat Wolf 2010-05-05 20:43:35 UTC

probably a dupe or related to:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199729

Comment 3 Aaron J. Seigo 2010-05-08 02:16:23 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 232172 ***