Anne Wilson wrote: > I don't have too many plasmoids I observe that plasmoids mostly just duplicate applications, and I prefer the full-fledged apps with all of the bells and whistles, as opposed to scaled- down plasmoidal apps. Also, you have to minimize or clear away everything from the desktop to use a plasmoid, so you might as well just use the real thing in a window. I do, however, like the weather report, a calculator, a notepad and an rss aggregator (mostly for scanning headlines, but generally I then move to google reader to do serious reading) on the desktop. After reading an article about the future of the desktop, I tried removing the panel entirely and putting all of the functions - time, s-tasks, sys- tray, kmenu - on the desk as plasmoids, but, firstly, it was not functional, as I had to constantly rotate to the virtual desktop with those plasmoids, and secondly, having quite a number of plasmoids really does not make for an aesthetically pleasing desktop, as it looks like a messy jumble (I always hated shortcut icons on the desktop, and this appears much the same). If they were all standard sizes, it would be easier to arrange them to make it look classy. Plasmoids have a limited value, primarily for system functions, but you don't see people showing off screenshots of their beautiful desktops since the advent of the plasmoid. Luckily, I have Intel graphics on both computers and don't have to disable anything to watch video. Intel rocks, these days, after a very rough 18 months that ended when I moved to f12? in late August. Firefox problems? Luckily, none here at all, but I use the desktop 99% of the time, so the laptop is just for the bedroom, and I rarely use a computer in bed, re: proper sleep hygiene ;-)
