On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Diederik de Haas <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thursday 12 January 2012 13:55:27 Iki Sham wrote: > > 1) When I start the 'Photos' activity I get an error for a widget ( > > http://en.zimagez.com/zimage/snapshot106.php - note: the title is wrong > :p > > ). Since I've hand-picked the KDE packages in my system, I thought maybe > > I'm missing some package. Or is it just some bug? > > I've hand-picked my KDE packages as well and the Photos activity is only a > blank (default) > background image. IOW there's nothing in it (for me). > > You may want to delete ~/.kde/share/apps/plasma-desktop and ~/.kde/share/config/activitymanagerrc and copy /usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma-desktop to ~/.kde/share/apps/ so you start with the default activities (as long as you don't have any activity you want to keep). > > 2) When starting the other default activities ('Desktop Icons' and > 'Search > > and Launch'), the window that asks if we want to run the selected > > applications is empty. I suppose this means that the activities aren't > > configured to run any app and it's just some bug because in this case the > > window shouldn't be displayed. Am I right? > > You get more then me then ;-) > The 'Desktop Icons' activity shows a folder icon for my home folder and a > trash icon. Nothing more. > The 'Search and Launch' activity is just as useful as the Photos > acitivity, iow only an empty > background image. > Install kde-plasma-netbook (it's a very tiny package) (and first do what I suggested above to reset the activities). > > > 3) The 'Photos' activity runs digikam and gwenview. Since these apps > aren't > > shown (opened), does it mean that they're just 'pre-launched' (running in > > the background)? I supposed this because there's something digikam > related > > running in the background and although there's nothing with a gwenview > name > > running maybe the folder widget is it? > > Sounds reasonable, but it doesn't run any of those on my system (but don't > have digikam installed). > You can check if a program is running by pressing Ctlr+Esc. > Afaik the folder widget and gwenview don't have a (direct) relation. > > Regards, > Diederik > > Regards.
