Bug 511058

Summary:	activities can not be closed because the close button is gone
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	serhumanos <diminombre>
Component:	Activity Switcher sidebar	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	aldo-public, ivan.cukic, nate, pat_h, wheniwasatruestar
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.5.0
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Neon
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description serhumanos 2025-10-25 00:19:14 UTC

SUMMARY
Activities are all shown and can not close anyone of it

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Enable activities
2. Have more than one activity
3. in the activity panel the close button is gone 

OBSERVED RESULT
no close activity button 

EXPECTED RESULT
button shown and close the activity if it was clicked

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: KDE neon User Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0
Qt Version: 6.9.2
Kernel Version: 6.14.0-33-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 20 × 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-13600K
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.1 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
Graphics Processor 2: Intel® Graphics
Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
Product Name: MS-7D36
System Version: 2.0

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
this problem appears after update plasma to 6.5

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2025-10-25 16:04:03 UTC

Yep, the feature to stop activities was removed in Plasma 6.5 because it didn't really work. So the button was mostly a lie, I'm afraid!

Comment 2 serhumanos 2025-10-25 16:09:41 UTC

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> Yep, the feature to stop activities was removed in Plasma 6.5 because it
> didn't really work. So the button was mostly a lie, I'm afraid!

I understand... so, how can I cycle throught the activies that i really using in the session?
i have a keyshortcut to next/prev activity, so now, the list is larger and I get some confused while cycling

thanks again for your answer

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2025-10-27 16:41:01 UTC

I don't know, sorry. I don't use Activities, so I'm not familiar with what is and isn't possible there.

Comment 4 serhumanos 2025-10-28 14:01:12 UTC

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3)
> I don't know, sorry. I don't use Activities, so I'm not familiar with what
> is and isn't possible there.

I understand... thank you very much for replying.

Comment 5 Antonio Rojas 2025-10-30 07:12:58 UTC

*** Bug 511354 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 pat_h 2025-11-04 06:48:50 UTC

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> Yep, the feature to stop activities was removed in Plasma 6.5 because it
> didn't really work. So the button was mostly a lie, I'm afraid!

That is only partially correct. Yes, there were cases where it did not work (window shown on multiple activities, non-compliant programs), but there was a huge number of cases where it did work.
With this change you just killed Plasma's best feature, the one I always advertised when people asked about Plasma. This is a sad day for Plasma.

Comment 7 Aldoo 2025-11-04 10:10:17 UTC

Maybe "Stop" was a bit misleading, but this was the only way to hide an activity that is not currently in use (in my case: I am speaking in a time scale of months) so that it does not clutter panels or makes it a pain to cycle through activities.
I support bringing it back (maybe renaming it to something like "Hide" or "Disable").  Related issue: Bug #511578.