Automatic activity switching and other stuff -- thoughts for 4.7

[Ryan Rix]

Hello Ivan,

On Sun 19 December 2010, plasma-devel at kde.org <plasma-devel at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First of all, I'd avoid automatic switching unless explicitly requested by 
> the user (aka, don't automatically switch to work-tagged activity when Alice 
> arrives at work unless she somehow requested that she wants it to switch 
> automatically in that case).

Of course, none of this would be automatic, just as users aren't forced to 
create activities outside of the default one currently. :) Basically, as I see 
it, you'd provide a KCM accessible from the AM or somewhere else which would 
allow users to define actions like "when X happens, do Y", where X and Y are 
the two types of plugins. 

Doing things like this without asking would just lead to wailing and gnashing 
of teeth, even from me ;)

> As for the other stuff - the tagging can go via Nepomuk - activities are
> (some basic info like icon and description) stored in it. The usage
> statistics will not be stored in Nepomuk, but most probably Zeitgeist.
> (nepomuk will hold summarized stats instead of each event).
> 
> The tags on places, whatever and activities should (IMO) only be used for
> sorting the activities when presenting them to the user in the A.M.
> 
> If you want auto-switching, I'd rather go (if you decide to use Nepomuk) for
> direct link between a place and an activity. Tags can be ambiguous.

*nod* makes sense. 

> That's all for this mail.
> 
> 
> Cheerio,
> Ivan


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