On Tuesday 27 October 2009 22:27:33 Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > I don't have too many plasmoids > > 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. > If you do serious calculations then you need a calculator, but for the quick and dirty jobs when you're just saving brainpower, krunner will act as a calculator. I do find this quite useful for quick jobs like adding up a complex column of figures (I don't think a very long column would be practical) then calculating a percentage. That's about as much as I need these days. > 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. I do resize them all so that they are either an identical size (much smaller than the default) or 50% of that size when it's practical to stack two. > 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. > You obviously haven't come across http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=17916&hilit="screenshot+thread" :-) It's slow to load as it has a lot of screenshots. Of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. > 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. > I will probably go down that road next time I replace the laptop. > 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 ;-) >
