[Panel-devel] Smooth movement of clock hands on plasma applet

[M. Costa]

El Saturday 26 May 2007 23:50:42 Fred Emmott escribió:
> Hi,
>
> The attached patch does 3 changes:
> - Adds a 'Milliseconds' key to the 'time' data source
> - Decreases the time between updates to 50msec
> - Adjusts the clock applet to take milliseconds into account when
> rendering the second and minute hands
>
> Advantages:
> - The clock hands appear to be constantly moving smoothly (shiny/sexy :D
> )
>
> Disadvantages:
> - Eats CPU (plasma at 30% useage of one core on an athlon64 4200+
> - Wakes up the CPU 20 times a second (power usage)

30% for a clock sounds insane to me. Is there a plan to improve it?