Release schedule clarifications

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday 25 October 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 25.10.07 16:34:56, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > On Thursday 25 October 2007, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > draging a rather large digital clock applet all around the desktop
> > > for 10-15s results in plasma taking .3% cpu, and x.org taking 5-8%.
> > > doing the same with a dolphin window of comparable size results in
> > > x.org taking 15% of my cpu.
> >
> > I'm reading this discussion and I'm very amazed that you and Andreas
> > don't see the performance issue with Plasma. As I said in my blog, I
> > have serious problems with it, and I have no idea what can be wrong.
> > The CPU is fast, Opteron dual core, the graphics card is not that fast,
> > but should be enough (NVidia FX5500, with the binay driver). I tried
> > with or without KWin, with or without composite extension enabled,
> > still just moving the mouse over a taskbar button, or moving a plasma
> > applet or right clicking on the desktop gives me high CPU load (60-100%
> > combined plasma + xorg). The resolution is 1600x1200 plus a 800x600
> > separate screen for TV out.
>
> WOW, yeah. All my tests until now were on the AMD1.3GHz machine with an
> NVidia GeForce2 (nv driver) with only 1 small 1024x768 screen.
>
> I just tested the kde4 desktop on my Laptop, which has a Xinerama setup
> with 1400x1050+1680x1050 desktop and the KDE4 desktop doesn't work very
> well there.

i have no xinerama systems to test on here. people will come in to #plasma and 
complain about it and will sometimes give some minimal system information, 
but we *really* need someone with a xinerama set up to test on and work on 
these things.

> I can't seem to drag any applet onto the panel, which worked on the
> other machine, more importantly dragging around the analog clock makes
> the cpu usage go through the roof, both from plasma and Xorg process.

when was this svn checkout from? we already knew that things were not happy on 
large displays; i disabled the paint caching for wallpapers today which -may- 
help things here.

> The desktop-widget doesn't expand correctly, the 2nd button is partly
> outside the screen. 

screenshots would be great. the desktop toolbox isn't completed in any case.

> I have 2 desktop widget even, one on each screen. 

that's intended, not a bug.

> The K-Menu didn't react at all and applets dragged onto the desktop

was this yesterday's svn? because i had to revert a change to layouts 
that -somehow- had an impact on event handling. andreas and i are both 
looking into that.

> always show up on the right-most part of the desktop, sometimes mostly
> outside the desktop. No matter where I release the mouse button.

this would be a bug, yes.

> Last but not least: The panel doesn't expand over both screens, but also

it's not supposed to

> doesn't stay on one screen, it looms about 1/4th into the 1st screen
> (2nd screen is left of 1st).

this isn't good =)

> @Aaron: I'm going to file bugreports about all of these as soon as b.k.o
> is back online again.

please be sure you're using today's svn.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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