Re: Kget "My Downloads" [Is this MS Windows?]
James Tyrer <[email protected]>
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On 04/22/2013 01:11 AM, Duncan wrote: > James Tyrer posted on Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:23:46 -0700 as excerpted: > >> On question you missed is Plasma. I have never looked at the plasma >> code, but usually the type of instability that Plasma exhibits is caused >> by code race conditions. You don't mention if there are any plans to >> completely rewrite it from the ground up? Or, what will be done with >> it? > > I don't know about the general case. I do know some specifics, however. > > One of the big problems and my personally biggest frustration with > plasma, certainly so when one misbehaving plasmoid would freeze or take > down the entire thing, is that it was single threaded (at least where it > counted), and a single process with no protection between components... > in a plugin architecture marketed from the beginning as extensible by > third parties with who knows what sort of experience or lack of it, etc. > > That just made NO sense to me! I don't think that you have the analysis correct. I now have a much faster 2 core machine and everything works faster except Plasma. So, I have it at higher priority like I did on the old machine. I always do that for X, since it will only use one core. It didn't help. I think that the problem with Plasma is that it is chasing its own tail -- on the edge of crashing. I will click on something in the desktop and have to wait seconds before something happens. So, as an experiment I click 2 or 3 other things, not a large load for a 4400+ AMD 64 dual core and after maybe 25 seconds all of them react together. The only way to fix it is to restart Plasma-Desktop. It is like it has half crashed. Considering the total instability in configuring the Plasma-Desktop and its tendency to change configurations by itself, it appears to me that Plasma is just junk -- the basic code base needs to be totally redone. And now that they have a working prototype, they can design if first this time. -- James Tyrer Linux (mostly) From Scratch -- James Tyrer Linux (mostly) From Scratch ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.