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<p>Erm, I think I may have found your problem. :)</p></div>
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<p>Different strokes.</p>
<p>Other reasons too, including the fact that most users nowadays have so much RAM that swap can be done away (if you don't use sleep/hibernate that is? I don't know how that works though).<br />
It would just be nice not to have to think about this stuff and have my computer help me out.</p>
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<p>I'm not suggesting it be shipped as a default setting, and I'd be okay with downloading it from the KDE Store, but we do already have niche widgets in Plasma (Binary Clock? Fuzzy Clock? Comic Strip, Color Picker...), so I don't think that's a reason not to include it. <br />
The niche thing doesn't seem like a good reason either - Hard Disk usage, Hard Disk IO monitor etc. can all seem niche depending on your point of view. And we have tons of those.</p></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D17217">https://phabricator.kde.org/D17217</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>McPain, broulik, VDG, ngraham<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>rooty, davidedmundson, graesslin, abetts, ngraham, plasma-devel, jraleigh, GB_2, ragreen, Pitel, ZrenBot, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, sebas, apol, mart<br /></div>