[kde-unstable] KDE 4.8

Loose_Control · 2011-12-05 15:28:33

pano wrote:

I think I solved my kmix problem by removing everything kmix related from the kde config folder.
At least right now, even though I started a Flash video, KMix does not consume 100% CPU.
edit:
Unfortunately the same problem just occurred again… So the statement above is invalid, please disregard it^^

is this maybe caused by flash?
i dont have this problem and i dont have flash installed...

the only problem i have is that gwenview always crashes when switching from view to browse

Last edited by Loose_Control (2011-12-05 15:31:04)

sumski · 2011-12-05 16:33:05

for me, kmix issues are related to pulseaudio, removing it , solves the crashes and high CPU usage

mangus · 2011-12-05 18:19:26

no issue here with kmix , using alsa

Xabre · 2011-12-05 18:31:37

Just for the record, I'm using Veromix insted of KMix, and have no such problems.
Though some may not like it, it seems a better solution to me than removing pulseaudio.

Loose_Control · 2011-12-05 19:33:32

hm i am using pulseaudio without problems

pano · 2011-12-05 21:10:22

yeah, the problem only appears when you e.g. surf to YouTube.
64-Bit Arch Linux, and PulseAudio (removing it is not possible, as I *need* its features).

I will give Veromix a try though. Hopefully it became a bit more stable since the last time I tested it.

desaparecido · 2011-12-06 00:04:43

Xabre wrote:

Just for the record, I'm using Veromix insted of KMix, and have no such problems.
Though some may not like it, it seems a better solution to me than removing pulseaudio.

Hi, I can confirm that too.. I use veromix and all is ok, but I needed to disable the KMixD mixer service in SystemSettings > Startup and Shutdown > Service Manager. I use x86_64 version, with pulseaudio and flash and finally works fine. next Wednesday beta2 go out to the wild.. probably will be fixed, but probably the others bugs too.. ahhh.. the betas version..

EDIT: after read @Xabre .... I use libflashsupport-pulse from aur

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Xabre · 2011-12-06 00:18:59

pano wrote:

yeah, the problem only appears when you e.g. surf to YouTube.

Are you also using libflashsupport-pulse? If not, would it make any difference?

pano · 2011-12-07 18:34:05

Xabre wrote:

pano wrote:
yeah, the problem only appears when you e.g. surf to YouTube.
Are you also using libflashsupport-pulse? If not, would it make any difference?

yeah, I have this installed too.

speed145a · 2011-12-07 22:58:46

We expecting an update to beta 2 soon?

darehanl · 2011-12-08 15:55:13

Hm... something just killed Desktop Effect's "blur" effect performance with beta2 on my intel 945 laptop. kwin is pinned at max CPU every time I try to do something (alt-tab, or just clicking Kickoff) and hangs for several seconds. It used to work, but now I have to disable it to get a usable system.

Gwenview now works much better, although I haven't tried Gwenview with "blur" turned on.

sevmpe · 2011-12-08 18:27:21

@darenhal Have you tried deactivating the OpenGL 2 shaders in Desktop Effects? Tooltip says it might improve performance on legacy hardware.

Akuma · 2011-12-08 18:49:53

Successfully updated to the beta 2.

So far the changes I can notice:
- KMix doesn't eat the whole CPU anymore, but the pulse sound streams list doesn't update and it often crashes when an app stops to output sound.
- The very slow window resizing issue with fglrx seems to be gone (still slower than 4.7 tho). Oddly, window resizing is faster with compositing enabled...
- Gwenview is way more stable and smooth.

Else it's more or less the same. Dolphin is still very bugged in detailed view.

Last edited by Akuma (2011-12-08 18:50:14)

hussam · 2011-12-08 19:41:49

Akuma wrote:

window resizing is faster with compositing enabled...

window resizing will always be faster with compositing because of not redrawing areas of the desktop that haven't changed

Akuma · 2011-12-08 22:48:08

hussam wrote:

Akuma wrote:
window resizing is faster with compositing enabled...
window resizing will always be faster with compositing because of not redrawing areas of the desktop that haven't changed

Yes I know, and it should even save power, but that's theorically.
Because in practice, especially with drivers like fglrx that horribly perform concerning compositing, it's not the case (yet).
Also the way X11 has been designed makes Compositing still not as optimal as it should be. Hence why Wayland tries to bring some solutions to this matter.
Window resizing has always been slower in my system with compositing enabled than without. Now it seems faster because looks like the resizing in non-composited mode is much slower than it used to be in 4.7.

Last edited by Akuma (2011-12-08 22:54:50)

darehanl · 2011-12-09 02:12:02

@sevmpe I didn't even look at that since I hadn't changed anything. Now my desktop is running swell. Many thanks!

Box0 · 2011-12-09 13:11:13

could someone confirm that in beta 2 is not possible to change the color of the notes plasmoid? I have several notes in my dashboard and now they are all yellow...

thanks.

arojas · 2011-12-09 13:30:38

Box0 wrote:

could someone confirm that in beta 2 is not possible to change the color of the notes plasmoid? I have several notes in my dashboard and now they are all yellow...
thanks.

Already fixed

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=288286

Box0 · 2011-12-09 13:37:26

arojas wrote:

Already fixed
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=288286

nice, ty

sl1pkn07 · 2011-12-09 15:55:21

beta 2:

ARK: still don't show image preview http://wstaw.org/m/2011/12/09/plasma-desktopgO4619.png
DOLPHIN: still don't show the sizes of archives correctly
HDD status Applet: Fixed, don't broken plasma-desktop anymore
KMIX: Random fails

Last edited by sl1pkn07 (2011-12-09 15:57:05)

Akuma · 2011-12-09 16:21:37

sl1pkn07 wrote:

http://wstaw.org/m/2011/12/09/plasma-desktopgO4619.png

Sorry for the offtopic but what's this system monitor in the right ? A conky script ?
And by the way what's the icon theme ?
Really look very nice.

sl1pkn07 · 2011-12-09 17:00:40

all plasmoids.

kdeplasma-addons-applets-systemloadviewer for CPU/Ram
Disk Status is include in kdebase-workspace
Nvidia status is this (hard modded)

the icon theme is F-Dark-kde

gskbyte · 2011-12-11 21:37:54

This beta works really well, but they haven't fixed yet the CPU consumption issue with plasma-desktop (I had it in KDE4.7).

And the new Dolphin is awesome!

Last edited by gskbyte (2011-12-11 21:38:12)

Zom · 2011-12-15 20:24:21

Are you planning to put qt 4.8 in this repo, or will it end up in testing instead? I'm guessing the latter, but yeah.

ilpianista · 2011-12-15 20:27:42

[testing], but I cannot build it ATM

Arch Linux

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Re: [kde-unstable] KDE 4.8

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