[kde-linux] kde4 help

[Kevin Krammer]

On Sunday 16 December 2007, Jim Philips wrote:
> Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > - currently the only way to get plasmoids onto a panel is directly
> > dragging them from the "add applet" dialog to the panel. However,
> > relocating (e.g. moving from panel to desktop or vice versa) is one of
> > the core concepts if the Plasma and will probably be available soon.
>
> I'm not clear on how you do that. How do I get to the "add applet" dialog?

I think you can right-click on the desktop or use the "toolbox" in the upper 
right corner.

> I have another problem. The strigidaemon regularly takes up to 70% of my
> CPU resources. Are other users seeing this? It certainly negates any of
> the other efficiencies gained in KDE4. Strigi was doing this to me in
> KDE3 too, which was why I stopped using it. But it seems to be required
> for KDE4.

Strigi will probably use quite some CPU while it is doing the initial 
indexing, though I would expect that it does so with lower priority than 
other processes, i.e. getting all the CPU time when no other process needs 
it.
Depending on how it is built, it will use file system notifications afterwards 
to only update the index when files change.

It can be turned off though, I recently saw this in a screencast by Sebastian 
Trüg about Nepomuk/KDE, probably linked to from the latest Commit Digest.

It probably also follows powersaving settings, e.g. not doing 
as-fast-as-possible indexing or no indexing at all when "conserve power mode" 
is active.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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