Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 28 December 2014 08:50:20 Daniel Frey wrote: On 12/28/2014 07:16 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2014 11:54:11 Mick wrote: I'm not sure I understand - what shortcuts cause problems with Activities? I have removed the icon on a KDE desktop here and I don't think

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 28 December 2014 20:42:57 Alan McKinnon wrote: What might work if you want to pursue it, is find all the relevant KDE config files that reference Activities, and I can show you mine. Might be worth a shot I've set off a search in /usr in case anything simple turns up, but otherwise

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-29 Thread Daniel Frey
On 12/29/2014 12:57 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: How did you remove the icon? I haven't found a way yet. I did it by the following (I think, anyway): 1. Open the Panel toolbox. (Click the cashew-looking thing to the right of the clock) That thing's so discreet I'd hardly noticed it. 2.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, December 29, 2014 07:46:20 AM Daniel Frey wrote: On 12/29/2014 12:57 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: How did you remove the icon? I haven't found a way yet. I did it by the following (I think, anyway): 1. Open the Panel toolbox. (Click the cashew-looking thing to the right of

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-29 Thread Mick
On Monday 29 Dec 2014 16:31:00 J. Roeleveld wrote: On Monday, December 29, 2014 07:46:20 AM Daniel Frey wrote: On 12/29/2014 12:57 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: How did you remove the icon? I haven't found a way yet. I did it by the following (I think, anyway): 1. Open the Panel

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 29 December 2014 20:32:08 Mick wrote: What's really missing is a big Undo button, that restores your desktop configuration to its previous almost satisfactory settings, just before it went sideways. No, I don't mean restoring from a back up. :-) Hah! Good luck with that. :-) --

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-28 Thread Mick
On Sunday 28 Dec 2014 07:19:22 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 28/12/2014 06:08, Gregory M. Turner wrote: On Saturday 27 December 2014 09:43:47 Peter Humphrey wrote: Morning list, Is there a way to build KDE without its concept of Activities? I find it an unnecessary complication, which I

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-28 Thread Greg Turner
On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 11:19 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.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

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On 28 December 2014 10:26:26 GMT+00:00, Greg Turner g...@malth.us wrote: On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 11:19 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.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

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 28 December 2014 09:19:22 Alan McKinnon 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

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-28 Thread Mick
On Sunday 28 Dec 2014 10:35:48 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2014 09:19:22 Alan McKinnon 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

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 28 December 2014 11:54:11 Mick wrote: I'm not sure I understand - what shortcuts cause problems with Activities? I have removed the icon on a KDE desktop here and I don't think users have noticed any problem with Activities; but they wouldn't really know what Activities is, so any

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-28 Thread Daniel Frey
On 12/28/2014 07:16 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2014 11:54:11 Mick wrote: I'm not sure I understand - what shortcuts cause problems with Activities? I have removed the icon on a KDE desktop here and I don't think users have noticed any problem with Activities; but they

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 28/12/2014 17:16, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2014 11:54:11 Mick wrote: I'm not sure I understand - what shortcuts cause problems with Activities? I have removed the icon on a KDE desktop here and I don't think users have noticed any problem with Activities; but they

[gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
Morning list, Is there a way to build KDE without its concept of Activities? I find it an unnecessary complication, which I never use. Any time I found myself wrestling with it by accident it's caused little other than anger and frustration. No doubt this is just as silly an idea as building

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-27 Thread Mick
On Saturday 27 Dec 2014 09:43:47 Peter Humphrey wrote: Morning list, Is there a way to build KDE without its concept of Activities? I find it an unnecessary complication, which I never use. Any time I found myself wrestling with it by accident it's caused little other than anger and

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 27 December 2014 09:57:09 Mick wrote: On Saturday 27 Dec 2014 09:43:47 Peter Humphrey wrote: No doubt this is just as silly an idea as building KMail without its database, which also has caused considerable grief. Peter, I can't advise on the Activities question, but can you

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-27 Thread Gregory M. Turner
On Saturday 27 December 2014 09:43:47 Peter Humphrey wrote: Morning list, Is there a way to build KDE without its concept of Activities? I find it an unnecessary complication, which I never use. Any time I found myself wrestling with it by accident it's caused little other than anger and

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 28/12/2014 06:08, Gregory M. Turner wrote: On Saturday 27 December 2014 09:43:47 Peter Humphrey wrote: Morning list, Is there a way to build KDE without its concept of Activities? I find it an unnecessary complication, which I never use. Any time I found myself wrestling with it by