Bug#1120094: libplasmaactivities7: All activities always active
control: tags -1 + upstream wontfix
Dear Patrick,
Le 5 novembre 2025 08:20:47 GMT+01:00, "Patrick Häcker" <pat_h@web.de> a écrit :
>Dear Maintainer,
Dear Patrick,
thanks for your bug report. You're not the only one bothered by this change, the issue has also been reported as #1118361 [1].
>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.
Unfortunately that's more of a divergence than we're willing to maintain in Debian downstream as the already pretty thin stretched Qt/KDE Team.
So if the feature is that important to your workflow I would advise engaging constructively with upstream around that workflow to find a better way to bring back what you need.
Like you I don't like the decision since I was using the feature, but unlike you I share the concerns raised by upstream about its previous behaviour and think they would need to be addressed from a design standpoint before moving forward.
I think nested session management is a pretty difficult topic, since handling session management properly is already a topic of its own. And if I were to dedicate resource on the topic I would prioritise ensuring the best session management features are enabled in all apps (think proper app state restore) and also in the Wayland session before working on nested setups.
[1] <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1118361>
Happy hacking,
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Aurélien
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