Bug 232214 - plasma sometines invents a new generic activity
Summary: plasma sometines invents a new generic activity
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 232172
Alias: None
Product: plasma4
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: activities (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Debian testing Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Blocks: 232215
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Reported: 2010-03-26 12:46 UTC by Martin Steigerwald
Modified: 2010-05-08 02:16 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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example of such an invented activity (333.12 KB, image/png)
2010-03-26 13:04 UTC, Martin Steigerwald
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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 ***