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. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.