Release schedule clarifications

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 25.10.07 09:21:46, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> 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.

For now I've subscribed to panel-devel and will show up in #plasma, as I
still don't work fulltime I should be around pretty often.

> > 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.

Yeah, moving the analog clock around is quite a bit smoother, however
there's still a hiccup when starting the move where plasma and Xorg
consume quite some CPU (don't have actual numbers at hand)

> > 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 files 3 bugreports (2 include a screenshot):
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151350
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151351
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151353

> > 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.

Thats fixed now.

Andreas

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