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 debian. 
 reportbug@mmm. 
 From: pat_h@web.de 
  
 Package: libplasmaactivities7 
 Version: 6.5.1-1 
 Severity: important 
 Tags: upstream 
 X-Debbugs-Cc: pat_h@web.de 
  
 Dear Maintainer, 
  
 activities can no longer be stopped in Plasma 6.5 and all are active at the 
 same time. Not only does this create a huge burden for the system resources 
 with a ton of currently unused processes, it also renders the UI, and 
 therefore activities as a whole, basically useless. 
  
 Cycling forward and backward through activities, e.g. with the thumb mouse 
 buttons, is straightforward when the typical two or three activities are 
 active. It does not work in any sensible way with the >20 activities which 
 are now always active. Additionally, moving windows to certain activities 
 is normally a quick task via the context menu, but now with >20 instead of 
 ~2 entries to choose from, this is much slower. 
  
 Although removing this feature was a deliberate decision from upstream 
 (although obviously from developers not using the feature themself) the 
 reasons are not convincing to me. It basically boils down to: "It does not 
 work in all possible situations, so it is better to never work at all". 
  
 This makes the whole package mostly useless beyond the simplest of use 
 cases. For the simplest of use cases, however, virtual desktops are good 
 enough, so activities are not needed. Therefore, this change effectively 
 makes the package useless. 
  
 Therefore, I suggest that Debian corrects the upstream decision for the 
 Debian packages by reverting 690d377810f775b0e4e7512f9516c8a9ba123d4f. 
  
 Having every (non-trivial) user of activities recompile the packages 
 themself is not a viable option, due to the SONAME change, the large number 
 of reverse dependencies of libplasmaactivities7 and the strict version 
 coupling between the Plasma packages. 
  
 Kind regards 
 Patrick 
  
  
 -- System Information: 
 Debian Release: forky/sid 
   APT prefers stable-security 
   APT policy: (900, 'stable-security'), (900, 'testing'), (400, 
 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') 
 Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) 
  
 Kernel: Linux 6.16.12+deb14+1-amd64 (SMP w/20 CPU threads; PREEMPT) 
 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
 LANGUAGE=de:en_US 
 Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash 
 Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) 
  
 Versions of packages libplasmaactivities7 depends on: 
 ii  libc6                     2.41-12 
 ii  libplasmaactivities-data  6.5.1-1 
 ii  libqt6core6t64            6.9.2+dfsg-3 
 ii  libqt6dbus6               6.9.2+dfsg-3 
 ii  libstdc++6                15.2.0-7 
  
 Versions of packages libplasmaactivities7 recommends: 
 ii  kactivitymanagerd      6.5.1-1 
 ii  plasma-activities-bin  6.5.1-1 
  
 libplasmaactivities7 suggests no packages. 
  
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