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Activity Issues With 4.4 RC1

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cirehawk
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Activity Issues With 4.4 RC1

Tue Jan 12, 2010 1:56 am
I just upgraded to RC1 on Mandriva Cooker and it seems to have screwed up my activities. Let me explain better what I mean. For a while now I have had my system set up to use an activity per desktop (I use 4 desktops). This way I could have a separate setup (wallpaper, etc.) per desktop. This was all retained when using the previous betas of SC 4.4. However, once I upgraded to RC1 and logged in, all my wallpapers and activity types were changed. I decided to rename my plasmarc file and configure from scratch, but here is the issue I'm having with that. Previously, to add or select an activity I would click the kidney and select "zoom out". From there I could add/delete/select an activity. I could also change the activity settings (assign activity per desktop) there. Now, when I zoom out I cannot select an activity (no control handles). So my question is this. Has activity configuration moved to another location? Because even though it's never been that smooth, as of now the zooming function seems to be less stable than ever.


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Re: Activity Issues With 4.4 RC1

Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:08 pm
The fact that you don't have control handles should be fixed in RC2. This was caused by a bug that would paint the zoom in button etc outside the screen.

For now, you can zoom in using the standard shortcut being Alt + D, +

Strange that your activities got screwed up though
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Re: Activity Issues With 4.4 RC1

Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:52 pm
Thanks for the reply. The control handles issue is good to know, but it sees to be more than just the zoom button being painted outside the screen. For each activity, there should be small buttons along the bottom to either select/delete the activity, as well as create a new activity. In other words, once I zoom out I have no way of selecting the activity I want to zoom in on. It's good to know that I can zoom in using the shortcut though. That helps.

As for my activities getting screwed up, it's pretty unpredictable. I can configure my desktop again to look as before. However, if I reboot I may lose those settings again and end up with a totally different wallpaper and activity type. It may retain it, it may not. Also, when using a desktop containment I seem to be unable to copy an icon (plasmoid) onto the desktop. I don't put many there, but there are 2 or so that I like to keep on the desktop. If other people aren't having this issue, I suppose it can be a problem with how Mandriva compiled the packages. I'll message the Cooker team as well.


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