Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

[Neil Bothwick]

On 28 December 2014 10:26:26 GMT+00:00, Greg Turner <gmt@×××××.us> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 11:19 PM, Alan McKinnon
> <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > What you can do is make Activities go away and never impinge on your
> > life, that's what I do. I've had KDE here for years and like you
> never
> > grokked what it even is when it first hit early in 4.x. I'm a grumpy
> old
> > far, I like my 6 virtual desktops in 2 rows of three, I like to
> launch
> > the apps myself I known I'm going to use now, and I like global
> session
> > management for apps I always use all the time (like Konsole). I
> don't
> > like Activities.
> >
> > I made them go away and have been using the same KDE config ever
> since
> > quite happily. IIRC all it really took was to remove the icon[1]
> from
> > the panel, and maybe disable some keyboard shortcuts. Activities
> hasn't
> > appeared here for years now, I'd forgotten all about them till this
> > thread showed up :-)
> >
> >
> > Anyway, hope this helps
> >
> >
> > [1] The icon is the one with three small overlapping circles IIRC
> >
>
> It may, thanks for suggesting this.  I can presumably resist the
> allure of
> the icon; but deactivating those shortcuts ought to save me from
> those
> "bridge troll" incidents, which invariably start with me accidentally
> or
> purposely mashing the keyboard or guessing at shortcuts in some
> random,
> hard-to-know-what-I-did-so-I-can-avoid-it-in-the-future way.
>
> -gmt

I quite like the idea of activities and used to use them. I stopped not because of the idea but the implementation. Even when you want to use activities, you still have to negotiate the bridge trolls. 
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