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 accident it's caused little other than anger and >> frustration. >> >> No doubt this is just as silly an idea as building KMail without its >> database, which also has caused considerable grief. > > +1 > > Don't understand it. Don't want to. Really hate when I press the wrong > button, it does some crazy inscrutable bullshit, and I have to figure out how > to escape from it with my desktop intact. > > Probably I just want to check my email, or whatever, and all of a sudden, > it's > like some ridiculous bridge troll is posing riddles to me and threatening to > blow up my desktop if I answer wrong. > > After quickly ducking this, I'm not optimistic. This is particularly > discouraging: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=91160 > > Sounds an awful lot like the cashew/virtuoso/etc. If history is any guide, > they'll never change it, no matter how nicely we ask, nor how carefully we > construct the patches to make it optional.
You can't build KDE without activities as far as I can tell, like a poster said in the link you provided it's a core feature much like tabs in Firefox. You can't "just remove that code" and still have stuff work. 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 -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
