On Monday 08 September 2008 12:59:48 Benji Weber wrote:

Ok. I'm trying to collate some of these laundry lists.

> * Plasma stability.

>

> It seems to me that if a single plasmoid crashes then it takes all of

> plasma with it. I can't work out how to get usable backtraces from

> plasma to file bugs for these. I've tried installing all the

> -debuginfo packages I could find but still have no symbols found in

> backtraces, and I can't be bothered to install from source at the

> moment.

Yes, plasma is all in one process at the moment. However it should be debuggable like any other process. kdebase4-workspace-debuginfo, kdebase4-runtime-debuginfo, kdelibs4-debuginfo and libqt4-debuginfo should be all you need to debug it.

> * Plasma doesn't play nicely with twinview/xinerama

> Bug#: https://bugzilla.novell.com/413268

That's something we can fix

> * Configurable global keyboard shortcuts don't appear to work yet in 4.1.

>

> Bug#: https://bugs.kde.org/160892 https://bugs.kde.org/165441

Ditto, should get some attention once we move from features work to bugfixing (as of next week).

> * Windows-Cover-Panel missing feature. (Fixed for 4.2).

>

> Bug#: Can't find it. [Please let me know]

This one is done in trunk, there is UI for it, so we will backport it.

> * Performance with nvidia's proprietary driver.

AFAIK nvidia are continuing to optimise for the xrender operations used by plasma. I've seen big improvements with 177.67 with the GlyphCache etc tweaks, and hope that a final driver will be out when 11.1 ships. Other than that there is not a lot we can do.

> System Specs: Q6600, 8800GTS, 8gb ram

You know that your system is many times faster than KDE needs, it's purely a driver bug. KDE now has very good contacts to nvidia, they are aware of the problems and are fixing them.

Will