> On Aug. 17, 2014, 2:36 p.m., Eike Hein wrote: > > Looks good, but: I'm aware of at least one downstream that would like to > > hide activities support from plasmashell for complexity reasons. Is there a > > way to disable activities support, and does it have an API we could use to > > conditionally hide the option in Folder? > > Ivan Čukić wrote: > There is no way to disable activities. At least, not a supported way. > > I *do* sometimes test a few things without the activity manager running, > but it was decided at one point (a long time ago) that we will not be > supporting that setup in any manner. > > The only component that is always guaranteed to work without activities > is kwin, because it needs to work with other environments beside Plasma. > > From my point of view, if a distribution wants something like that, they > need to be prepared to maintain their own patches which I don't think is very > manageable in the long-run. > > > * interestingly enough, there still is a hidden checkbox in the > activities kcm for disabling the system, but it was voted out as soon as I > created it. It has absolutely no effect now. > > Eike Hein wrote: > > From my point of view, if a distribution wants something like that, > they need to be prepared to maintain their own patches which I don't think is > very manageable in the long-run. > > I agree, having them fork the code downstream all over the place is > pretty ugly. So the only recourse is to leave this patch out for now then.
The problem with leaving the patch out is that it is a regression compared to 4.1x (pre-baloo). And if we do it like this, no new feature (at least, activity-related) will ever get in. - Ivan ----------------------------------------------------------- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119813/#review64674 ----------------------------------------------------------- On Aug. 17, 2014, 2:32 p.m., Ivan Čukić wrote: > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119813/ > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > (Updated Aug. 17, 2014, 2:32 p.m.) > > > Review request for Plasma, Eike Hein, Marco Martin, and Sebastian Kügler. > > > Repository: plasma-desktop > > > Description > ------- > > This is port of the feature that the folder view had before baloo replaced > nepomuk - the configuration option to show the files that are linked to the > current activity (activities:/current/). > > It requires the latest master of kactivities which ship with the new kio > implementation. > > > Diffs > ----- > > containments/folder/package/contents/ui/ConfigLocation.qml dc97e81 > > Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119813/diff/ > > > Testing > ------- > > > Thanks, > > Ivan Čukić > >
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