https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402387

            Bug ID: 402387
           Summary: Let's talk about Plasma usability on the plain old PC
                    desktop
           Product: plasmashell
           Version: master
          Platform: unspecified
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: grave
          Priority: NOR
         Component: Panel
          Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
          Reporter: a...@gmx.com
  Target Milestone: 1.0

I'm really interested in understanding the reasoning behind the Plasma project
and its applicability to the plain old desktop PC. Let me explain myself. Most
PC users never look at the desktop for extended periods of time and their
interaction with the desktop begins and ends with applications links, files and
folders located there.

It looks like plasma developers insist that plasmoids should be a sort of
wonder which the end user is supposed to marvel at. Unfortunately that's not
the case. Most PC users spend next to zero time interacting with the desktop
and I suspect they are much more interested in getting up-to-date information
and readings from the task panel (kicker/whatever it's called nowadays).

Under KDE 3.5.x/KDE 4.x/XFCE 4/other environments I can embed the following
monitors in the task panel:

1) A CPU usage monitor which monitors all cores individually (several narrow
bars) and overall CPU utilization as one extra bar. There's no such plasmoid or
feature for KDE 5.

2) A RAM usage monitor which shows free/occupied RAM as a simple narrow bar.
There's no such plasmoid or feature for KDE 5.

3) I want something akin to KNetStats which creates icons for network
interfaces *on the fly* (long unmaintained KNemo can't do that) and flashes
them when there's network activity. There's no such plasmoid or feature for KDE
5.

4) I need to be able to embed certain HW sensors as simple configurable
numbers, not as bars or circles which are very hard to read. There's no such
plasmoid or feature for KDE 5.

5) I want to be able to see my average CPUs frequency as a number. There's no
such plasmoid or feature for KDE 5.

6) I want to be able to see the output of certain commands run/updated at
certain intervals, e.g. something akin to Generic Monitor from XFCE. There's no
such plasmoid or feature for KDE 5.

7) I need to see the current temperature and weather conditions.

I'm now looking at what's available in KDE 5 and I cannot find anything which
suits my needs. No system monitor works properly when placed in the task bar.

For some reasons these simple features are available in KDE 3.5.x, KDE 4.x and
XFCE, yet KDE 5 doesn't offer anything.

Please see the attached screenshot for my XFCE configuration.

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