Hello everybody

I decided to try out KDE-4.6 beta 2, and since I knew of Kontact's migration to Akonadi, I also decided to start off with a new .kde4 home directory.

Everything is working quite fine, aside from some minor quirks which I have sorted out. However, no matter what I try, I can't seem to make my activities work properly. On the activity bar, I see highlighted an activity with no name, and no matter how many times I try to switch to the other ones, the slider goes back to the unnamed one.

If I start Plasma from a terminal, or if I tail .xsession-errors, I see one of this for each switch I try to make:

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kde(9512)/kdeui (KIconLoader): Trying to remove an entry which is already invalid. This  cache is likely corrupt.

I tried removing my kdecache dir in /var/tmp, but still this happens, and it's quite a showstopper, activities becoming such a central part of the KDE desktop.

Anybody has any idea about this?

Thanks in advance

GODLiKE.-

this is almost certainly related to some bugs that were fixed recently in trunk. sorry :/

Hmmm... the strangest thing just happened. I restored some plasma config files which were some days older than the backup of my previous installation, and now I can switch between activities. However the slider stays in the small "unnamed" one, but switching between activities does indeed change the desktop background and widgets.

Is this a known bug?

I have the same problem with the activity panel. Moreover objects placed on the desktop (files, application icons) do not respond to a double click (application start of file open). All other controls (settings, resizing, rotating) however work.

The same for the widgets in the taskbar: quick access, desktop, tasklit: all these do not respond. If those widgets are placed on the desktop, they have the same faulty behaviour.

In the beta 1 version , all worked well.

Anybody an idea if this is solvable

thanks
JoHasp

GODLiKE wrote:On the activity bar, I see highlighted an activity with no name, and no matter how many times I try to switch to the other ones, the slider goes back to the unnamed one.

I noticed the same thing, but as a "workaround" (within quotes, since I think the workaround works better even if the activity bar didn't suffer from that bug if only because it saves precious screen real-estate): try:

http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Ac ... 09f27be319

GODLiKE wrote:However the slider stays in the small "unnamed" one, but switching between activities does indeed change the desktop background and widgets.

This has been fixed in trunk (although bugs related to activity creation still persist).