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Hi, first time here so I don't have all the terminology in head.
I created several activitied I regularly work with (4 to be precise) and deleted all the rest which came with the installation.
There seem to be some bug which erases the names of some or all except the first activity (never erases the name of the first activity) after say a restart.
Note, it doesn't erase the activity nor its icon and not even the name as it appears on the desktop (on that launcher on top, I have no idea what it's called) just the name of the activities on the bar.

Does anyone have an idea why it happens?

I'm using kubuntu 12.04.

Thanks in advance
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If you open the Activities Manager (Top right corner of screen > Activities) do the names show there?
It seems that either the "Activity Bar" or "Activities" applets contain a bug if the names are shown properly there.


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rangel
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Hi bcooksley, thanks for the quick reply.
If I click 'Activities' in the Activities Manager (so that's how it's called ;) ) it's the same as when I press meta +Q, it opens the Activities Bar and that's where the names are missing.
On the Activities Manager itself though, the name of the current activity appears (even if it's missing from the bar).

Any solution to that?

Thanks again
Roey
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It appears you found another way, but did get to the same place. In this case, the "Activity Bar" is the "Activity Manager". The menu on the top right of the desktop, which has Activities and Add Widgets as entries, is called the "Cashew".

Can you reproduce this behaviour under a new user?
Have you tried changing the names of your activities (even if only slightly, ie. change capitalisation, add a letter or number, etc) as well, in case it is a syncing problem?


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And just to frame the problem better, is Nepomuk enabled or disabled?


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rangel
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Well I've certainly confirmed this for other text versions (capital letters, with/ without space, periods, underscores etc.), but not for other users though.

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Sorry Einar, only sa your msg now.
yes Nepomuk is active and indexing.

I would'nt want to have to delete all my KDE configs in my home dir to solve this bug. It would take me forever to remake all my changes and modifications.
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Can you post your KDEHOME/share/config/kactivitymanagerrc? (KDEHOME is usually .kde or .kde4 depending on the distro)


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I have the same issue. In ~/.kde4/share/config/activitymanagerrc, I noticed that in the [activities] categories the names in question were missing (see below). I also noticed that when I changed the name it was not updated in this file. When I created a new activity it entered in this file with the default name. When I changed the name to my liking, this file still had it stored with its default name.

I figured a way around this problem: When I changed the name, and then stopped the activity (only possible when you are using another one), the name in the config file changed. Hence, if you want to rename, stop and start the activity afterwards. Worked for me at least.

Code: Select all
$ cat ~/.kde4/share/config/activitymanagerrc                               
[activities]
59f01cce-63f1-4ba8-a516-3d3cf71b663f=
6694e0bf-0139-4209-8ebb-6f2e7ccfbaf7=Latex
daae059e-5d2d-4624-b4a5-b957a5a5945b=Programming

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