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On 28/12/2014 06:08, Gregory M. Turner wrote: |
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> On Saturday 27 December 2014 09:43:47 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>> Morning list, |
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>> Is there a way to build KDE without its concept of Activities? I find it an |
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>> unnecessary complication, which I never use. Any time I found myself |
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>> wrestling with it by accident it's caused little other than anger and |
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>> frustration. |
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>> No doubt this is just as silly an idea as building KMail without its |
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>> database, which also has caused considerable grief. |
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> +1 |
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> Don't understand it. Don't want to. Really hate when I press the wrong |
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> button, it does some crazy inscrutable bullshit, and I have to figure out how |
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> to escape from it with my desktop intact. |
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> Probably I just want to check my email, or whatever, and all of a sudden, it's |
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> like some ridiculous bridge troll is posing riddles to me and threatening to |
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> blow up my desktop if I answer wrong. |
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> After quickly ducking this, I'm not optimistic. This is particularly |
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> discouraging: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=91160 |
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> Sounds an awful lot like the cashew/virtuoso/etc. If history is any guide, |
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> they'll never change it, no matter how nicely we ask, nor how carefully we |
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> construct the patches to make it optional. |
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You can't build KDE without activities as far as I can tell, like a |
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poster said in the link you provided it's a core feature much like tabs |
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in Firefox. You can't "just remove that code" and still have stuff work. |
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What you can do is make Activities go away and never impinge on your |
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life, that's what I do. I've had KDE here for years and like you never |
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grokked what it even is when it first hit early in 4.x. I'm a grumpy old |
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far, I like my 6 virtual desktops in 2 rows of three, I like to launch |
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the apps myself I known I'm going to use now, and I like global session |
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management for apps I always use all the time (like Konsole). I don't |
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like Activities. |
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I made them go away and have been using the same KDE config ever since |
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quite happily. IIRC all it really took was to remove the icon[1] from |
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the panel, and maybe disable some keyboard shortcuts. Activities hasn't |
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appeared here for years now, I'd forgotten all about them till this |
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thread showed up :-) |
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Anyway, hope this helps |
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[1] The icon is the one with three small overlapping circles IIRC |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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