vertically uncentered clock
by Felix Miata
http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/KDE/plasmaF594clock.png
Is it on purpose in 5.9.4 on F25 & F26 for clock to have more space under than
above? It looks to me like somebody screwed up Fedora theming somehow, as clock
looks perfectly centered vertically with 5.9.4 on Tumbleweed.
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words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)
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7 years
F24 5.33.0 digital clock refuses to show only time
by Felix Miata
Deselecting show local time zone does not get zone off the clock or allow the
giant clock digits I want without making the panel height double the size I want.
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words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)
Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!
Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
7 years
Slow system boot up these days
by Terry Barnaby
Just an observation and to discuss the slow booting of Kde/Plasma/Linux
these days.
On a laptop I have, a Thinkpad T410, i5 4 core 2.6GHz, 4G RAM, Spinning
1 TByte 7200rpm disk (110 MBytes/s sequential reed speed) I get the
following rough figures:
Windows7 to login screen: 24s
Windows7 from login screen to desktop: 10s
Windows7 overall: 34s
Fedora25/KDE to login screen: 50s (1:46 when updatedb runs)
Fedora25/KDE from login screen to desktop: 50s
Fedora25/KDE overall: 1:40 (-> 2:36 when updatedb is running)
I get similar but slightly faster speeds on desktop i5 systems, again
with spinning disks. SSD systems I have are faster (It does seem to be
disk bound) but still not that quick.
It is starting to get noticeable/an issue these days and getting
embarrassing when going to meetings with a Linux Laptop !
Once Fedora25/KDE its running it is quite snappy, unless there is disk
activity going on in the background when some things can lockup awaiting
disk (why should desktop code be so disk reliant ?)
I know disk readahead is no longer present which doesn't help, but it
does seem that the code in general, and KDE/Plasma specifically appears
to be getting a bit bloated and disk bound. Of the 50s to login screen
23s appears to be due to sddm (not sure on that). Could this be due to
more extensive usage of things like QtQuick (QtSlow !) ?
Ok, I can buy a SSD, disable updatedb (but why does this start during
boot quite often ?), change to a different desktop and/or suspend to
mem/disk but really the system shouldn't be this slow and probably power
consuming. Oh for the days of KDE 3 :)
(An ancient Thinkpad 600E, Mobile Pentium II 363 MHz, 228 MBytes RAM
running Fedora6 and KDE 3 system takes 21 s from login screen to KDE 3
desktop (Ok Linux boot to login is a bit slow on that one at about 1:10)).
Does anyone in the know think that this performance aspect may improve
or get worse as the KDE/Plasma 5 series is developed ?
Terry
7 years
update
by Rex Dieter
Fedora friends,
My days @unl.edu are likely coming to an end. I was informed recently my
current job/position will be eliminated in ~3 months (last day July 12). An
immediate impact is that most of my time will be spent on the transition
(and job hunting), and less available for any fedora-related fun.
I'll try to post updates as appropriate and time allows.
-- Rex
7 years
Print in grayscale does not work
by Mattia Verga
Seems that in KDE the option "print in grayscale" does not work: I'm
using Okular and when I choose file -> print and set in options "color
mode" -> grayscale it prints in color. The only way I can print in
grayscale is to open printer properties and set "print color as gray" in
the advanced parameters.
Another user has the same problem with Gwenview:
https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=213&t=138834
And I verified it's the same problem, but in Gwenview there are no
options in printer settings to print color as gray.
Now my question is: since it's a KDE wide problem, not just a single
application, what's the best component where I should open a ticket?
Thanks
Mattia
7 years
Could not locate service type... spam
by Neal Becker
/var/log/messages is getting heavily spammed with:
Apr 11 09:38:47 nbecker2 kwin_x11: kf5.kcoreaddons.desktopparser: Could not
locate service type file kservicetypes5/kwin-effect.desktop, tried
("/home/nbecker/.local/share",
"/home/nbecker/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share",
"/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/usr/local/share", "/usr/share")
Any suggestions?
7 years
kde-sig meeting today
by Rex Dieter
I won't be able to attend the kde-sig meeting today.
For those that can, are there any agenda topics to discuss? If not, perhaps
best to cancel this week.
-- Rex
7 years
questionable dependencies
by Reindl Harald
on a machine here kf5-* 5.33.0 is in stable upodates but plasma 5.9.x is
missing - as we had *often* problems when only a half of this and that
made it to repos i think it's time to add versioned dependencies between
packages which belongs together and are only testet together
7 years
