Re: Some thoughts on Activity Manager

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On Tue, 2017-05-23 at 12:38 +0200, Luigi Toscano wrote:
> On Tuesday, 23 May 2017 12:30:58 CEST Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > Every time I log in I get a segfault on kactivitymanagerd. I've
> > reported it to the Fedora Bugzilla and I assume it will be upstreamed
> > to the KDE BZ.
> > 
> > I created a completely new user, logged in, and it immediately happened
> > again. The current version is:
> > 
> > kactivitymanagerd-5.9.5-1.fc25.x86_64
> > 
> > but it's been happening for a while now.
> > 
> > I've never used the Activity Manager and don't understand what it's for
> > in a system that already supports multiple VTs (kind of - the
> > KDE/Plasma version doesn't work well for me), as well as multiple
> > desktops which I do use extensively, so why do we need another layer of
> > multiplexing?
> > 
> > Personally, I would like to get rid of it, but that doesn't seem to be
> > possible without removing Plasma.
> 
> IIRC kactivitymanagerd takes care also of the recent files and documents in 
> the application launcher menu.

Perhaps, but I find it hard to believe this is its main focus. Other
desktops seem to manage the same thing equally well.

> If my memory is correct, you don't want to remove it. The segfault should be 
> solved instead.

I would like to remove it but can't as it's a dependency of Plasma. In
my case losing the "recent stuff" function would be no great loss,
though other people might have a different view.

poc
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