Bug#1120094: libplasmaactivities7: All activities always active
Package: libplasmaactivities7
Version: 6.5.1-1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: pat_h@web.de
Dear Maintainer,
activities can no longer be stopped in Plasma 6.5 and all are active at the
same time. Not only does this create a huge burden for the system resources
with a ton of currently unused processes, it also renders the UI, and
therefore activities as a whole, basically useless.
Cycling forward and backward through activities, e.g. with the thumb mouse
buttons, is straightforward when the typical two or three activities are
active. It does not work in any sensible way with the >20 activities which
are now always active. Additionally, moving windows to certain activities
is normally a quick task via the context menu, but now with >20 instead of
~2 entries to choose from, this is much slower.
Although removing this feature was a deliberate decision from upstream
(although obviously from developers not using the feature themself) the
reasons are not convincing to me. It basically boils down to: "It does not
work in all possible situations, so it is better to never work at all".
This makes the whole package mostly useless beyond the simplest of use
cases. For the simplest of use cases, however, virtual desktops are good
enough, so activities are not needed. Therefore, this change effectively
makes the package useless.
Therefore, I suggest that Debian corrects the upstream decision for the
Debian packages by reverting 690d377810f775b0e4e7512f9516c8a9ba123d4f.
Having every (non-trivial) user of activities recompile the packages
themself is not a viable option, due to the SONAME change, the large number
of reverse dependencies of libplasmaactivities7 and the strict version
coupling between the Plasma packages.
Kind regards
Patrick
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers stable-security
APT policy: (900, 'stable-security'), (900, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.16.12+deb14+1-amd64 (SMP w/20 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de:en_US
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages libplasmaactivities7 depends on:
ii libc6 2.41-12
ii libplasmaactivities-data 6.5.1-1
ii libqt6core6t64 6.9.2+dfsg-3
ii libqt6dbus6 6.9.2+dfsg-3
ii libstdc++6 15.2.0-7
Versions of packages libplasmaactivities7 recommends:
ii kactivitymanagerd 6.5.1-1
ii plasma-activities-bin 6.5.1-1
libplasmaactivities7 suggests no packages.
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