Review Request 119813: Show activity-linked files in folder view option

[Eike Hein]

> On Aug. 17, 2014, 2:36 p.m., Eike Hein wrote:
> > Looks good, but: I'm aware of at least one downstream that would like to hide activities support from plasmashell for complexity reasons. Is there a way to disable activities support, and does it have an API we could use to conditionally hide the option in Folder?
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> Ivan Čukić wrote:
>     There is no way to disable activities. At least, not a supported way.
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>     I *do* sometimes test a few things without the activity manager running, but it was decided at one point (a long time ago) that we will not be supporting that setup in any manner.
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>     The only component that is always guaranteed to work without activities is kwin, because it needs to work with other environments beside Plasma.
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>     From my point of view, if a distribution wants something like that, they need to be prepared to maintain their own patches which I don't think is very manageable in the long-run.
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>     * interestingly enough, there still is a hidden checkbox in the activities kcm for disabling the system, but it was voted out as soon as I created it. It has absolutely no effect now.

> From my point of view, if a distribution wants something like that, they need to be prepared to maintain their own patches which I don't think is very manageable in the long-run.

I agree, having them fork the code downstream all over the place is pretty ugly. So the only recourse is to leave this patch out for now then.


- Eike


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On Aug. 17, 2014, 2:32 p.m., Ivan Čukić wrote:
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> (Updated Aug. 17, 2014, 2:32 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma, Eike Hein, Marco Martin, and Sebastian Kügler.
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> Repository: plasma-desktop
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> Description
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> This is port of the feature that the folder view had before baloo replaced nepomuk - the configuration option to show the files that are linked to the current activity (activities:/current/).
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> It requires the latest master of kactivities which ship with the new kio implementation.
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> Diffs
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>   containments/folder/package/contents/ui/ConfigLocation.qml dc97e81 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119813/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Ivan Čukić
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