On Tuesday 27 October 2009 20:18:20 Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > Those that dynamically update, such as weather > > plasmoids, probably do. Those that are fairly > > static, like the picture frame, probably eat > > very little. > > Sounds good. On my desktop computer, weather and rss > update only every 30 minutes here, so should be > minimal strain. Picture frame, when I use it, changes > every 2 minutes or so, so that would suggest somewhat > increased load, but also minimal. > > Again, you have stilled my concerns, so I can likely > even begin using plasmoids on my 3.5 year old laptop, > where I always refrained, due to concerns about > sapping processor power :-) > I know those concerns, only too well :-) This laptop is 4.5 years old, and wasn't state-of-the-art when I bought it. It has ATi Mobility Radeon X600 graphics , so it's little short of amazing that I can use desktop effects at all, but I carefully use only the minimum of effects, and temporarily disable them if watching video, for instance. Again, I don't have too many plasmoids, but the number does seem to grow over time, when things prove themselves useful. Currently I have two folderviews (to remote drives), a picture frame, yawp, pastebin, analogue cloc showing two time-zones and opendesktop plasmoids. The only problems I have relate to firefox, not to plasma or plasmoids. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20091027/e9601227/attachment.bin
