- Better Waydroid integration (Waydroid is the virtual environment that let’s you install and run Android apps)
- A faster and more convenient lock screen
- Halcyon and Folio, the two different interfaces you can choose from, improve blurs, navigation, and settings
And much, much more.
Interesting, thanks for the link. I really hadn’t had many problems with the whole session management aspect of it. I just want the activity to not be listed in the pager when I’m not using it. Sounds like maybe it’s possible to still stop activities without using that broken session manager part. I also wrote about this a little on KDE discuss:
I’m very sad that the ability to stop activities was removed. This was a good feature that broke my workflow, I hate having to look at activities that I’m no longer using.
I know there’s a lot of drama around activities, but I really think it’s a good system that needs to be expanded upon. I think the main issues with it is marketing and slightly buggy code. I didn’t understand what activities were after reading about it, so I decided to force myself to use it until I figured it out. When describing activities to others, I’d say that they are virtual desktops that you can start and stop at will and have their own application launcher favorites and widgets.
I think activities and virtual desktops can and should be merged in a way that makes everyone happy. Call it virtual desktops, but keep all the features of activities. Allow users to start and stop activities, script that along with the activation and deactivation that currently still work, and make separate widgets optional. This way if you only want virtual desktops, you get that. If you want more functionality, it should all be a few gui configuration options as is the KDE way.
Yeah, I agree that there could probably be a way to “close” Activities, which doesn’t do the session management, so explicitly just throws the windows onto another Activity (or maybe prompts you when there’s still windows on that Activity), without having to outright delete that Activity.
Deleting an Activity is relatively disruptive, since you may have files linked to it or nicely setup wallpapers and such. And there are a number of places where Activities show up, where it can be annoying to have Activities showing up that you’re not currently using.
I can imagine them being open to that suggestion, if you articulate it well.
From what I saw, they did make a lot of changes to remove the start/stop functionality, but most of it was session handling code. So, it might not be too additional much trouble to add a way to close Activities instead.
As a wise Nate Graham once said: The most reliable way to find out whether people use a feature (and how they use it) is to remove it. The second-most reliable way is to announce its removal.
Well, you did miss the announcement, so it probably felt a bit rude to you, but yeah, you should still consider this the start of a conversation. They’re not hellbent on removing this feature.