

Interesting, thanks for the link. I really hadn’t had many problems with the whole session management aspect of it. I just want the activity to not be listed in the pager when I’m not using it. Sounds like maybe it’s possible to still stop activities without using that broken session manager part. I also wrote about this a little on KDE discuss:
I’m very sad that the ability to stop activities was removed. This was a good feature that broke my workflow, I hate having to look at activities that I’m no longer using.
I know there’s a lot of drama around activities, but I really think it’s a good system that needs to be expanded upon. I think the main issues with it is marketing and slightly buggy code. I didn’t understand what activities were after reading about it, so I decided to force myself to use it until I figured it out. When describing activities to others, I’d say that they are virtual desktops that you can start and stop at will and have their own application launcher favorites and widgets.
I think activities and virtual desktops can and should be merged in a way that makes everyone happy. Call it virtual desktops, but keep all the features of activities. Allow users to start and stop activities, script that along with the activation and deactivation that currently still work, and make separate widgets optional. This way if you only want virtual desktops, you get that. If you want more functionality, it should all be a few gui configuration options as is the KDE way.








Big shoutout to Nate Graham. I see that guy all over the internet being helpful and productive. I just don’t know how one person can be such a G.