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Make activity applet context menus clearer and more consistent

Christoph Wolk requested to merge cwo/plasma-desktop:activity_actions into master

This MR contains three changes toward making the various activity-related applets more consistent.

  • The ShowActivityManager applet has its displayed name changed to "Show Activity Manager" (from "Activities") to reduce confusion with the Activities feature, and the "Configure Activities…" context menu entry not opening the activity kcm (like in the activity bar applet)
  • The activity pager and ShowActivityManager have a "Configure Activities…" context menu added that opens the activity kcm.

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This applet is currently called "Activities" in the UI. This is confusing in multiple ways - it is not the actual activity feature, but has the same name, its right-click menu shows "Configure Activities" but does not actually allow the user to configure activities (as opposed to the Activity Bar applet, where "Configure Activities" opens the activity kcm, and it makes it harder to later add support for opening the kcm from the right-click menu as the obvious name for it is already taken.

This change modifies the display name to the somewhat verbose "Show Activity Manager", already the internal name of the applet. "Activity Manager" would be another option, but still has the problem of having a context menu entry called "Configure Activity Manager" that does not allow actually configuring the Activity Manager.


The virtual desktop version of the pager contains a context menu entry that allows directly accessing the corresponding kcm, as does the activity bar widget. The activity version of the pager, however, does not have easy access to the activity kcm.

This change adds such an entry to the context menu and adds translation context. It also removes the ellipsis from the "Show Activity Manager" menu entry, as the activity manager is shown without further user input.


The activity bar and activity pager widgets contain a context menu entry that directly opens the activity kcm, but Show Activity Manager does not.

This change adds that entry.

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