activities overview, take N

[Marco Martin]

On Tuesday 13 October 2009, Chani wrote:
> > > > * a "New Activity" tab would appear Active and Stored and would allow
> > > > you to create a new activity, including picking what kind of activity
> > > > and optionally what other activity you would like to clone
> > >
> > > interesting. I ended up going with the "don't force any decisions, just
> > >  create the damn thing and they can configure it later" approach. do
> > > you think it's better to offer options at creation time?
> > >
> > > as for cloning... I have, for quite a while now, secretly wanted a
> > > "clone" option for any applet. mostly for the notes plasmoid and for
> > > containments. can we get cloning implemented in Applet so it's
> > > available for applets not just containments? :)
> >
> > i think that's a not bad idea, wonder how to do the ui, just another
> >  context menu entry?
> 
> well, I was secretly hoping it could be another button on the applethandle
>  ;) but a contextmenu entry would work for me. depends on how likely people
>  are to use it... some things you never clone (systray), some things it's
>  really useful (notes), some things it might be useful mainly for getting
>  all your activities set up (clocks!)

so perhaps applets should enable explicityly that feature? 
setCloneEnabled(bool).. or maybe on by default to be disabled explicitly?

> hmm... if you clone a containment, do you clone its applets too? :)
yeah, no big point doing that otherwise

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Marco Martin