Desktop Activity Manager 0.8.0-1
Desktop activity manager
Desktop activity manager (actman) is a status menu applet that allows the user
to have multiple activities (a'la KDE's plasma). An activity is the set of all
desktop widgets, bookmarks and icons along with the background.
For example, it is possible to have an activity named "car" where the
desktop is customized to be easily accessible while driving without
having many icons. Then another activity named "games" to include shortcuts
to games. Then another activity named "clean" without any widgets on the
desktop in order to conserve battery.
Desktop activity manager comes along with a command-line tool
(/usr/bin/activity) that can be used by other applications, scripts or
automations in order to handle desktop activities.
Section:
user/desktop
Repository:
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Size:
27388 bytes
MD5sum:
80189160a80a883101662838114fe8e1
Source:
Status:
Old version cleaned by repository management
Bugtracker:
QA Quarantine ends:
ENDED 2010-04-02 21:45
| Tester | Karma | Timestamp |
| Robin Hill (502) | 2010-04-09 15:53 UTC | |
| Tomasz Dominikowski (Tester) (596) | 2010-04-09 15:48 UTC | |
| Venomrush . (Tester) (721) | 2010-04-08 12:30 UTC | |
| David B (127) | 2010-04-07 22:16 UTC | |
| Stefanos Harhalakis (Maintainer) (568) | 2010-04-07 02:21 UTC | |
| Alan Howard (176) | 2010-04-04 21:44 UTC | |
| Emanuele Cassioli (Tester) (986) | 2010-04-01 15:30 UTC | |
| Sven H (72) | 2010-03-31 11:08 UTC | |
| andrew franklin (35) | 2010-03-31 10:29 UTC | |
| Faheem Pervez (2151) | 2010-03-30 15:20 UTC | |
| B D (157) | 2010-03-24 14:04 UTC |
Package events
| Event type | User | Timestamp |
| Old version cleaned by repository management | System | 2010-04-13 23:17 UTC |
| Package promoted | Stefanos Harhalakis | 2010-04-09 15:50 UTC |
| Package is in testing | System | 2010-03-23 21:45 UTC |

Comments:
Seems that the problem I've reported depends on me or on hildon-home, changing my vote.
EXCELLENT APP - this is the best app I have installed on my phone by far, allows me to create a 'car desktop' where i have all items i may need when driving easily accessible! top quality app! Thanks
EXCELLENT APP - this is the best app I have installed on my phone by far, allows me to create a 'car desktop' where i have all items i may need when driving easily accessible! top quality app! Thanks
From the mentioned widgets I also use: Dataplan Monitor (works) IP monitor (works) Internet Search widget (works) Calendar (works) Conversation widget (works) Additionally I use foreca which works but forgets cached data.
I'm not an expert in apps; and I'm also not sure if it is appropriate for me to put a comment in this section. For someone like me who lacks the technical knowledge, the app works really well. I don't have to keep everything on the desktops now and can let others use it too without worrying that they will have 'easy' access to my personal info. That said, with the GUI in place, it's a very convenient application to use. Since I do not use any desktop widget (to conserve battery), I did not face the issue of non system widgets not showing up.
Thanks for writing me a pm in TMO, the new notification system seems not to work.
Well, these are my steps: - I'm using the Normal activity (the activity with all my widget that I've managed to create) - I create a new activity called Test - Now the active activity is Test, and it's equal to Normal - Close the DAM panel - Make some modifications (for example I delete all the icons in one desktop, or move something) - Switch to Normal - all seems to work - Switch to Test: all seems good, except for all non-system widgets missing! I mean, the icons I've previously moved are where I've moved them, and the icons I've deleted are there no more, but widgets are not there. Normal always have all the widgets (created after many tries).
This is the list of my widgets: - Dataplan Monitor - IP monitor - Internet Search widget - Calendar - Conversation widget - RSS - recaller - Tunewiki - Multimedia - Bluetooth widget, - sleeper
Only non-system widgets disappear.
Can you tell me such a widget? I'm using it to save and restore a number of widgets including "Desktop Command Execution", "Dataplan Monitor", "Foreca", "Nameday", "Easy FM Transmitter" and others, without having such a problem.
Can you clarify what you're saying? For example, when creating a new activity, it becomes the current one.
If not, I'd like a list of desktop widgets that you're using in order to test it myself.
There's a little bug: when I create a new activity, non-system widget are not saved and not displayed when switchin to that activity. I've managed to create an activity including all the widgets only after many tries. I think that this is a blocker, because it does not provide all the claimed features.
Bug was present even in previous releases, sorry for notifying it only now.
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