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 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 > > Hmm. I can't see a way to remove that icon - only the whole panel, which > seems like a bad idea. This link shows a painless way to discover what > happens if you do that: > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/kde-running-without-pl > asma-desktop-activities-disabled-848517/ > > In short, an empty, black desktop. No panel, no way of starting a program > other than by name with KRunner. > > I did find some keyboard short-cuts though, under Plasma Desktop Shell in > Global Keyboard Shortcuts, which is under Shortcuts and Gestures in System > Settings. I removed all short-cuts that had Activities in the name. > > It seems likely that accidentally hitting one of those short-cuts is the > cause of much of the woe over Activities. > > So yes, Alan, you did help by setting me off again, but no you didn't > otherwise :-)
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 problem may go unreported. -- Regards, Mick
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