Stopped activities -- what are they and why?

[joneall]

Yesterday, I had 4 activities defined and they worked well ... except that plasma crashes a lot. But it usually restarts itself with no loss ... usually. I admit to being pleased by the appearance and rapidity of activities.

When I booted this morning, I only saw 3 activities. When I brought up the activities window/bar (I don't know the difference, I mean the one with the background image of each activity) I see only activities A, B and C. D is there as a "stopped activity" THREE TIMES! What in the world is this? I managed to delete one. Then, when I even moved the mouse cursor down to one of the stopped ones, Plasma crashed.

How do I avoid this? What happened? When will Plasma 5 be stable?

I just tried again, and one of the stopped activities opened. I renamed the other one (just in case), then deleted it.

My questions remain open, though. Thanks for any suggestions.

[vinnywright]

you can ,,,,,stop an activity,,,,,click the X in it's representation in the activity list/bar,,,,,,,,when it is "stoped" you will not see it's wallpaper in the activity list/bar but clicking on it's name will restart it and switch you to it .

if ,,,lets say you are on activity A with amarock a web browser and some more stuff running ,,,,,,and you switch to activity B ,,,,,,all the stuff on A will still be running even though you don’t see them ,,,,,,those apps do not close untill you "stop" the activity ,,,,or go back to it and close them.

VINNY

[joneall]

OK. Thanks, Vinny.