I just upgraded to KDE 4.7 and the cashew in upper right corner now has the text 'New Activity' next to it. How do I get rid of this and go back to just the cashew?

If you click on the "New Activity" which is now the Cashew, and select "Activities" it should provide you an option to rename the current activity, which will change the text shown there.

bcooksley wrote:If you click on the "New Activity" which is now the Cashew, and select "Activities" it should provide you an option to rename the current activity, which will change the text shown there.

It's not quite as easy as that. When the activity bar thing (the whole activity selector interface could really use some work, but that should be another topic), I have to click the little wrench to be able to rename it. It took me a bit to notice the wrench, but the concept in line with other parts of KDE and is a good idea.

I can rename it but I can't turn the text off. The only way I've found is to name it a space but this moves the cashew out of the corner and I doubt I could have two activities with a single space as the name. There has to be a way to disable displaying the text. Out of the three other default activities, the 'Desktop Icons' activity has no text displayed next to the cashew.

Having the activity name next to the cashew is a good idea, but there needs to be a way to turn it off on selected activities.

Another option is to move the activity cashew into a corner of the desktop, and the text will disappear (unlock widgets and drag the activity widget to a desktop corner).

Thanks kubicle, that did the trick. Looking at the 'Desktop Icons' activity, that seems to be how it was done as well. I never though of the cashew as being a dragable object.

kubicle wrote:Another option is to move the activity cashew into a corner of the desktop, and the text will disappear (unlock widgets and drag the activity widget to a desktop corner).

nice ! thanks

To rename activities, perhaps a simpler alternative to the controller is the "activity manager" plasmoid on kde-apps.org.

I would love to be able to lock the cashew into the corner in ALL my activities. In fact, this works, but only it seems to for the default activity I login on. When I switch to any other activity that has been stopped that had a cashew in the corner, even with widgets locked in the activity before leaving it, the cashew always pops out of the corner as soon as I start the activity again. This has been really annoying for me...

From what I can tell, this is likely a bug. Can you please post a screenshot of it "popped out"?

bcooksley wrote:From what I can tell, this is likely a bug. Can you please post a screenshot of it "popped out"?

What I mean by "popped out" is that I park the cashew in the upper right corner, I lock the widgets again. I then turn the activity off. If I then start the activity again, the cashew is no longer in the corner. It is instead either hugging the upper window edge right of center, or the right window edge near the top somewhat "near" the corner. But it is no longer in the corner. This happens with ALL activities EXCEPT the one that was active at login. For that one, regardless of what I do, starting or stopping that activity, the cashew remains where it was placed, like one would expect.

I would consider this a bug in Plasma, however I could not reproduce it on my Trunk system.
The position set for the cashew on each activity was correctly retained, with each Activity having their own preference for the cashew position.

bcooksley wrote:I would consider this a bug in Plasma, however I could not reproduce it on my Trunk system.
The position set for the cashew on each activity was correctly retained, with each Activity having their own preference for the cashew position.

I tried this with a new empty activity, I placed the cashew in the lower left corner, that is the opposite corner of where it was trying to go. I locked the widgets. I turned the activity off. I switched it back on (using the arrow in the activity icon). Sure enough, the cashew was back hugging the upper edge of the screen, a little left of the upper right corner. This I can get to happen consistently reproducible for me in what seems like a simple test case, since I tried it with a purely empty activity immediately after creating it. Is there anything I can look at (~/.kde config files, etc) where I can check to see where it has recorded the cashew placement?

Incidentally, one thing I notice is that the upper right area it moves to seems to be the same place the cashew is initially placed when I initially create an activity, so maybe it is not persistently saving the cashew config on my system at all...?? It is strange because all other "activity" related things seem preserved correctly as I change them when I restart an activity, including icon & widget placements and settings, etc. Only the cashew misbehaves for me...

If you create a new user, is the configuration correctly retained there?