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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: switching between the desktops is slow
From:       Antonio Larrosa <antlarr () arrakis ! es>
Date:       2000-12-16 14:22:45
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Waldo Bastian escribi=F3:
> =

> On Monday 11 December 2000 16:27, Matthias Ettrich wrote:
> > Tuesday 12 December 2000 00:00 wrote Dirk Mueller:
> > > On Mon, 11 Dez 2000, aleXXX wrote:
> > > > I noticed that when I switch between the desktops xosview show me=
 up to
> > > > 2 seconds after redrawing has appearently finished 100 % CPU usag=
e.
> > > > This gets worse if my box is busy.
> > >
> > > Its the "enhanced" pager applet. RMB on the minipager and disable i=
t.
> >
> > Why does this "enhanced" pager have to do anything AT ALL? Can't it d=
o all
> > necessary calculation when it becomes visible?
> >
> > Matthias
> =

> I hope I'm not offending anyone but that whole thing sucks beyond belie=
f. I

I agree,

> mean..  what is the purpose of having a pager that you need to click on=

> first? Just  to get the embedded pager but 4 pixels bigger? I see no ad=
ded
> value whatsoever in having this kpager thing flapping out.
> =

> I can imagine that you want to use kpager as stand alone app _instead_ =
of the
> one embbeded in kicker. In that case it still sucks performance wise bu=
t at
> least it adds some functionality.
> =

> Slightly related, I thought you could move windows in the embedded page=
r with
> MMB but it doesn't work. Am I confused or is this a bug?
> =


I think it's intended, but you can ask Alexandr Makaryk
<alexandrm@corel.com>.

In any case, I think that should be disabled by default.
It's not useful at all and it consumes a lot of CPU.


Greetings,

--
Antonio Larrosa Jimenez
KDE Core developer  - larrosa@kde.org
SuSE Labs developer - larrosa@suse.de
http://www.arrakis.es/~rlarrosa
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