Activity Ranking

[Marco Martin]

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Ivan Cukic <ivan.cukic at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just a small note - I've disabled activity ranking plugin in KDE/4.9 branch of
> kactivities since it is not used by the desktop plasma, and it slows down the
> activity switching. Disabled as in 'not building'.
>
> To build kamd with it, you just need to pass the following to cmake
>    -DKACTIVITIES_BUILD_ACTIVITYRANKING_PLUGIN=1
>
> Now, I've seen that we have a dataengine that uses it, but nobody (from plasma
> desktop) uses that data engine.
>
> What do you think - is it worth making the plugin run in a separate thread for
> 4.9 (running in separate thread fixes the issue)?
>
> I've done this in the activity-manager-3 branch which if a big refactor of the
> current master (will become master in a week or sooner) so it can't really be
> back-ported.

i think threading of the ranking is definitely not for 4.9, no.

disabling for the desktop build is ok, i'll add the enable option in
obs for active.

Cheers,
Marco Martin