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
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Size:
27388 bytes
MD5sum:
80189160a80a883101662838114fe8e1
Status:
Old version cleaned by repository management
QA Quarantine ends:
ENDED 2010-04-02 21:45
TesterKarmaTimestamp
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 typeUserTimestamp
Old version cleaned by repository managementSystem2010-04-13 23:17 UTC
Package promotedStefanos Harhalakis2010-04-09 15:50 UTC
Package is in testingSystem2010-03-23 21:45 UTC

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Emanuele Cassioli
Karma: 986

Seems that the problem I've reported depends on me or on hildon-home, changing my vote.

2010-04-01 15:30 UTC
andrew franklin
Karma: 35

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

2010-03-31 10:31 UTC
andrew franklin
Karma: 35

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

2010-03-31 10:31 UTC
B D
Karma: 157

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.

2010-03-25 09:07 UTC
navneet singh
Karma: 133

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.

2010-03-25 07:31 UTC
Emanuele Cassioli
Karma: 986

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.

2010-03-24 16:07 UTC

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.

2010-03-24 16:02 UTC
Emanuele Cassioli
Karma: 986

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.

2010-03-24 15:11 UTC
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