Bug 232172 - plasma sometimes forgets which activity is assigned to which desktop when login in
Summary: plasma sometimes forgets which activity is assigned to which desktop when log...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 199729
Alias: None
Product: plasma4
Classification: Plasma
Component: activities (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Debian testing Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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: 232214 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: 232215
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Reported: 2010-03-26 00:51 UTC by Martin Steigerwald
Modified: 2010-05-08 02:18 UTC (History)
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Description Martin Steigerwald 2010-03-26 00:51:41 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.4.1)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

I have four activities, each one on one desktop:

+----------------+----------------+
|  Information   |  Documents     |
|                |                |
|                |                |
+----------------+----------------+
| Communication  |  System        |
|                |                |
|                |                |
+----------------+----------------+

Sometimes after logging, this ordering is lost and one of those desktops has another activity.

Expected results:

Plasma just always places the each activity on the desktop I assigned it to and never ever changes the assignment until I tell it to do so.
Comment 1 Martin Steigerwald 2010-03-26 11:46:05 UTC 
I logged out today to upgrade to xserver-xorg-core 1.7.6-1. I did a rm -r /tmp/* /var/tmp/* in order to clean up cached KDE stuff, since Akonadi sometimes didn't initialise itself properly and this helped it.

After login in again, the activities system and communication were switched. The konsole window correctly appeared on the right bottom desktop which was not the communication activity and not the system one. I selected the left bottom desktop, choosed zoom out and selected the communication activity. Then plasma placed the system activity on the right bottom desktop where I want it to be. But still I didn't ask it to change it and would have preferred that I change it myself.

On top of it Plasma changed the right top desktop to some generic "Arbeitsfläche" activity. I didn't ask it to do it.

So it seems there are two problems:

1) On logging out and in again I at least sometimes to not get back the correct activity / desktop assignment.

2) On changing the activity assigned to one desktop Plasma appears to shuffle around activities for other desktops as well. I will report this as a different bug and link it from there.

Expected results:

Plasma should just leave everything as I set it. *Always*. It should never *think* for me, I *know* what I am doing. This is just as annoying as bug #232171 for me. I feel patronized by Plasma. With KDE 3.5.10 I configured my desktop to me wishes and it kept it that way. At least in most cases, it hasn't been perfect either, but way better than with Plasma.

Sometimes I just want to discontinue using activities again due to usability problems like these. But OTOH I want to help making it better by reporting as detailed as I can what I find. Unfortunately I did not yet find a pattern in this.
Comment 2 Aaron J. Seigo 2010-05-08 02:16:23 UTC 
*** Bug 232214 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Aaron J. Seigo 2010-05-08 02:18:18 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 199729 ***