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 > 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 > > > > It may, thanks for suggesting this. I can presumably resist the > allure of > the icon; but deactivating those shortcuts ought to save me from > those > "bridge troll" incidents, which invariably start with me accidentally > or > purposely mashing the keyboard or guessing at shortcuts in some > random, > hard-to-know-what-I-did-so-I-can-avoid-it-in-the-future way. > > -gmt
I quite like the idea of activities and used to use them. I stopped not because of the idea but the implementation. Even when you want to use activities, you still have to negotiate the bridge trolls. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
