hi. i'm experiencing this bug
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248386
basically, lots of junk activities are automatically created, each time i start the pc.

my question is: while waiting for the bug fix,is there a workaround or a way to disable activities at all?

i'm worried about the resources waste, since there are abour 50 junk activities...

thanks

KDE SC 4.5.1
Kubuntu 10.04

You can't disable activities entirely. You can reduce activities to just 1 and only use that (suggest you remove ~/.kde first to clean out the current set of activities and get back to a clean slate).

Alternatively, I've been using plasma-netbook on my laptop and haven't run into this issue. It comes by default with a search-and-launch activity and a newspaper activity, but you can customize these as you want.

airdrik wrote:You can't disable activities entirely. You can reduce activities to just 1 and only use that (suggest you remove ~/.kde first to clean out the current set of activities and get back to a clean slate).

Don't EVER do that if you want to keep messages in kmail, the amarok-collection, subscribed feeds in akregator, bookmarks in Konqueror/Rekonq, and various other such things. If you want to start with a clean plasma-slate, only move the plasma* files out of the way (when plasma isn't running). They're saved in ~/.kde/share/config (or .kde4 depending on distro).

that is what i've done: reducing to just one, but they keep increasing.


@Kryten2X4B : someone else tried to do that but it didn't work (comment #9 of the bug tracker linked above).

comment #15 may work, but i didn't understand where is plasma-desktop-appletsrc


All in all, everybody told they have deleted some folders, but there isn't an official blacklist of folder to erase

Gigi wrote:@Kryten2X4B : someone else tried to do that but it didn't work (comment #9 of the bug tracker linked above).

No, considering the rest of the bug thread I can understand that. It certainly seems there's something more at play here than merely corrupt plasma-files.

BUT, if one wants to start with a clean-slate for whatever reason the following is much safer:

Start konsole or xterm.

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kquitapp plasma-desktop
mv ~/.kde/share/config/plasma* ~/
sleep 5
plasma-desktop &&


That restores plasma to its default values.

Gigi wrote:comment #15 may work, but i didn't understand where is plasma-desktop-appletsrc

Open this file in your preferred text-editor:

~/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc

after you've done the kquitapp plasma-desktop. When you're done editing,
run the plasma-desktop && command.

You can also clean out ~/.kde/share/apps/plasma-desktop/activities which seems to have cached activity definitions. From my experience (as mentioned in that bug thread), this will prevent the bad activities from coming back for a time.