Thread: [Announce] Actman activity manager
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2010-05-29 , 23:09
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Originally Posted by zimon View Post
When rather often, for still unknown reason, Desktop suddenly looses many of its widgets and shortcuts, one wants to restore Desktop from the newest backup in ActMan, one has to first switch to backup, then delete "Default", then make a new one "Default".
If I understand you correctly, you want to be able to restore a "messed" activity. For example, if you're in activity "main' and you re-arrange some icons (or some widgets disappear) you'd like to restore the activity "main" as it was.

If this is the case then you can run from a shell:
Code:
# activity load -f main
This will force a re-load of the current activity.

In general, you can do many things from the command-line tool that are not possible (or are hard to be done) from the GUI.

I'd have already added some more functionality to the interface if I could add a menu. No matter how I tried, it seems that it is not possible to have a menu for a status-menu plugin. This restricts the number of buttons to 5. The only solution I can think of is to add a "More" button and include some actions (like "Rename") in a popup menu.

Originally Posted by zimon View Post
Other thing:
In the start of the week I had somewhat serious bug.
[A Bug] Alarmclock and Calendar alarms are silent

I wonder, why switching to old backup from ActMan fixed the issue? I hadn't switch or used ActMan for couple of weeks when the bug came and alarms in Clock and Calendar became silent suddenly.
I can't tell how this happened but actman backups and restores all gconf entries that are related to the desktop. Perhaps alarmclock stores something there. I can have a look on that.
 

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