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