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Schoelje Registered Member Posts 32 Karma 0 OS	Programmed new panel gets ActivityManager just the same Mon Aug 05, 2013 9:11 pm For each new user that has no .kde directory, a new panel is created and this script is executed: /usr/share/solydxk/default-settings/kde4-profile/default/share/apps/plasma-desktop/init/00-defaultLayout.js Code: http://pastebin.com/NHNW98j9 This works, but since KDE 4.10, the ActivityManager widget is added after the Kickoff menu. I have tried to put this line in that script, and in a separate script, but to no avail: Code: Select all `panel.widgets("org.kde.showActivityManager").remove()` How can I prevent this from happening?
wolfi323 Registered Member Posts 1129 Karma 11 OS	Re: Programmed new panel gets ActivityManager just the same Mon Aug 05, 2013 9:30 pm Change /usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma/layout-templates/org.kde.plasma-desktop.defaultPanel/contents/layout.js (at least that's the path on openSUSE, don't know about Debian but it should be similar). Maybe you have to remove /usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma-desktop/updates/addShowActivitiesManagerPlasmoid.js as well.
Schoelje Registered Member Posts 32 Karma 0 OS	Re: Programmed new panel gets ActivityManager just the same Mon Aug 05, 2013 9:48 pm Thanks, wolfi323, that was really quick! wolfi323 wrote:Change /usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma/layout-templates/org.kde.plasma-desktop.defaultPanel/contents/layout.js (at least that's the path on openSUSE, don't know about Debian but it should be similar). Maybe you have to remove /usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma-desktop/updates/addShowActivitiesManagerPlasmoid.js as well. Unfortunately, these would be re-created with the next update of plasma-desktop, and that's not something I wish for our users to solve themselves. My script is correctly executed, but somewhere later in the process, another script adds the activities manager. I'm looking for a more sustainable solution. [EDIT] In the above mentioned layout.js, more widgets are added, but in my panel only the activity manager is added. So, I suppose the layout.js script is not executed.
google01103 Manager Posts 6668 Karma 25	Re: Programmed new panel gets ActivityManager just the same Mon Aug 05, 2013 10:16 pm what if you populate the new users ~/.kde/config with pre-defined plasma-destop*rc files w/o the activities widget when you create the user, maybe using /etc/skel? or create a first run script that replaces those files when the user first logs in? OpenSuse Leap 42.1 x64, Plasma 5.x
Schoelje Registered Member Posts 32 Karma 0 OS	Re: Programmed new panel gets ActivityManager just the same Mon Aug 05, 2013 10:30 pm google01103 wrote:what if you populate the new users ~/.kde/config with pre-defined plasma-destop*rc files w/o the activities widget when you create the user, maybe using /etc/skel? or create a first run script that replaces those files when the user first logs in? Let's say it's my last resort: I like to keep my packages as clean as possible - less preconfigured config files is something I try to aim for, but I need to be realistic. If it can't be done with the existing script, I'll add the rc file to /etc/skel
wolfi323 Registered Member Posts 1129 Karma 11 OS	Re: Programmed new panel gets ActivityManager just the same Mon Aug 05, 2013 10:55 pm See here: http://techbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Admi ... pScripting on update: when plasma-desktop is started, it will check in`kde4-config --path data`/plasma-desktop/updates/ with a ".js" suffix for scripts that have not yet been run. If there is more than one script which has not been run yet they will be executed serially in the alphabetical order of the file names. A record of which update scripts have been run is kept in the application's config file in the [Updates] group. This means that if the plasma-desktop configuraiton file is removed, all the update scripts will be run again. So it should help to create a file .kde/share/config/plasma-desktoprc in /etc/skel with an [Updates] group like this: Code: Select all `[Updates] performed=/usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma-desktop/updates/addShowActivitiesManagerPlasmoid.js` This should prevent the execution of that script. Or try to create such a file as default configuration in `kde4-config --path config` (would be /etc/kde4/share/config/plasma-desktoprc on openSUSE).
wolfi323 Registered Member Posts 1129 Karma 11 OS	Re: Programmed new panel gets ActivityManager just the same Mon Aug 05, 2013 11:03 pm Oh, and according to that page, something like this should work for removing the ActivityManager: Code: Select all `removeWidget = function(widget, containment) { widget.remove() } var template = loadTemplate('org.kde.plasma-desktop.findWidgets') template.findWidgets('org.kde.showActivityManager', removeWidget)` But the question of course is, which script is run first...
Schoelje Registered Member Posts 32 Karma 0 OS	Re: Programmed new panel gets ActivityManager just the same Tue Aug 06, 2013 6:34 am Thanks for the help! This should be enough to get me started. Today is the day I have to synchronize and test the updated repositories, and tomorrow I'll start building the new iso's. I'll post the outcome of this issue in one or two days.
Schoelje Registered Member Posts 32 Karma 0 OS	Re: Programmed new panel gets ActivityManager just the same Tue Aug 06, 2013 8:19 am I've adapted the postinst script of the package that sets the system configuration for each distribution separately. By diverting /usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma-desktop/updates/addShowActivitiesManagerPlasmoid.js I successfully prevent the creation of the activity manager widget in the panel, and future updates will not have an effect on this either. It's a pragmatic, but not very aesthetic solution to the problem. Thanks again for your help!

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