News from the Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things:
Another feature has returned. This time with less issues and much more speed.
(yes, activities do need a new icon :) )
Linking files to activities
Ivan Čukić
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[…] Linking files to activities […]
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@Johnny
Yeah, we are not that good exposing our features. Though, when the 4.x version is concerned, it is not bad that it is not a widely-known thing (big issues in the underlying platform).
The feature came from Plasma Active where if you link something to an activity, it pops up on the 'desktop'. Here[1] you have a few applications, documents and bookmarks linked. You can think of it like per-activity file favourites.
The linked files (and directories) will be available from any doplhin-like thing (through activities://something kio) and I'm hoping to add it into the places panel at some point. Also, you will be able to set the desktop to show it (in a folder view).
This data could end up being used for a few other things as well, but we'll see.
I'll need to write a more detailed set of activity-related instructions at some point.
[1] http://vizzzion.org/images/blog/contour-froscon.png
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@Burke I'm not sure how well that would play out.
It will (hopefully in 5.2) we available through the share-like-connect applet in the panel.
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What does it mean to link a file to an activity? Is that file then only viewable in Dolphin when on that activity? Does it open automatically when that activity is selected? Is it only read/write or read or write on that activity?
Interesting. I'm using KDE 4.13.3 and just checked. Activity linking is in this version and I'd never heard of it until now.
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And also it's time to make sure that this option is not hidden behind a bunch of submenus. Something more prominent would be nice. Maybe a button next to the hover select-plus-button in dolphin?
hmm...
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@Smurfy
At some point, yes. We'll see exactly when - 5.1 or 5.2.
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Thank you very much for your hard work on this! The activities are great stuff and very useful for me.
I used some years ago the possibility to show some favorites (places) in Dolphin (KFilePlaces) on only a specific activity. (this patch here https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101348/). It was very useful because I use my laptop at home and at work, but with very different network shares.
Are there any plans to port this feature?
