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Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> I made some screenshots [*] after I started with an empty .kde4 directory |
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> one week ago. They show what is started automatically when I log into KDE, |
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> well, except for the last desktop where I fired up a browser for online |
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> banking. |
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> Desktop 1: Administration stuff. A Konsole with a root shell and a normal |
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> shell, and another spare one. Some system info and logging plasmoids. |
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> Desktop 2: Multimedia. Amarok, a folder plasmoid with my images. A Dolphin |
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> with two tabs showing my music and video files, both tabs have two views. A |
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> Konsole window is grouped to the Dolphin window, I use it mainly for |
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> downloading videos with my download script, which is a wrapper for youtube- |
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> dl but does a little more. BTW, I added it to the 'Open with...' menu in |
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> Konqueror, but nowadays I write 'mydl' in this shell and drag the URLs I |
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> want to download from the browser right into the shell. |
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> Desktop 3: Mail/News/WWW. Kontact, I use the KMail, Akregator and KNode |
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> components mainly. And two grouped Chromium windows with some tabs. |
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> Desktop 4: Remote. I go here when I administrate remote systems, via ssh in |
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> a Konsole, RDesktop, or NX. The folder views have shortcuts to start |
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> NX/Rdesktop/VPN sessions, or Dophins opening FTP locations and such. |
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> Desktop 5: Programming. A big Dolphin grouped to a Konsole with a growing |
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> number of tabs. Some folder views for stuff I regularly need. Another |
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> Chromium, showing my Wiki, and more tabs when I need them. When I actually |
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> do something here, I also have some editor windows open. |
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> Desktop 6: Other. Financial stuff, LibreOffice, and other things that don't |
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> fit into the other desktops. |
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> All in all, I don't think this is really so much. With KDE uptime, more |
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> things are running, and I often see no need to close them, because might |
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> need them later again. The weird thing is that this has been my attitude for |
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> long, and before KDE4, I had no problems with this, even with less then 4G |
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> of RAM. I was using swap then, but it did not matter much, a little delay |
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> while an application I did not use for a while gets swapped in was okay. But |
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> now, when swapping starts, it seems to happen constantly. As if important |
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> stuff were swapped out, that would be needed again immediately. |
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> With the ati-drivers, this was even worse. When I moved to radeon, it was |
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> much better already. |
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> Wonko |
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> [*] http://www.wonkology.org/comp/desktop/2011-07-24/ |
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http://www.wonkology.org/comp/desktop/2011-07-24/desktop6.png |
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You might want to remove that one. Look closely at the bank screen. |
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I'm looking closely. Some things interest me. I'm still learning about |
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KDE4. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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