Changing Activity/View without Place

I have an app using Activities and Places. I have a process where I list items, then show an item detail screen, then rename an item by showing a screen with a single field. After rename, I show the item detail screen again. So I wrote this as ListPlace, DetailPlace, RenamePlace with matching Activities and Views.

Afterwards, I realize that I don't want the forward/back buttons to scroll back through the Detail and Rename places. I only want the forward/back buttons to move around in the list. I don't want the Rename place to be bookmark-able, etc. This is my main problem. Can I use Places and not have them stored in the history list? A I understand it, each Place is a new History token and you can't modify the stack either because the browser manages it.

Trying to work around this, from within the ListActivity I manually load the FileInfoActivity, which then manually loads the RenameActivity (activity.start()). This is working well except that it is MGWT and I don't get animations when I do this because I'm skipping the AnimatingActivityManager. I am manually calling onStop() on the activities. I realize that I am short-circuiting some GWT wiring by doing this. It seems to work, but I'm afraid I'm creating problems that I am unaware of. Any guidance here? Anyone else do this?

I like that my view and logic are encapsulated within Activities and Views, but I don't want a Place (new URL token stored in History) for every Activity/View. If I throw all this logic into the top ListActivity and View (rather than separating it into smaller Activity/Views), then the ListActivity and ListView are going to get unwieldy as I keep adding functionality.

How do I (Can I, Should I?) change the Activity/View without using/changing Place? Is there another approach that will allow me to encapsulate my functionality into smaller chunks?

Thanks,

Kevin

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