[kde-linux] kde4 help

[Jim Philips]

Kevin Krammer wrote:
> 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.
>   
It's labeled "add widget" in English. And although you can drag the
icons from that dialog, they just vanish if you drop them onto the panel.
>   
>> 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
>
> The Kuuntu packages just upgraded and it doen't seem to run away anymore.