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Karamba could be great.
by cybereal on Thursday 05/Jun/2003, @10:53
Ok, I like the idea. It's a really cool idea in many cases. It's like "Hey, I've now got active desktop on crack for linux" yeah sure... whatever. But it has serious flaws. For example, last time I tried it, I had this tight looking little control bar thing with the kmenu and such all on it, it was nice looking, and functional, but, EVERY SINGLE SECOND, it would cut into the cpu usage something like, 40 percent. And that's an underestimate. *YOU* go play quake3 with 40% cpu and some hard drive usage going on every single second... dead yet? Yeah, that's what I thought. Ok, that's fine, it can be fixed with proper idle calls and implementing the common features internally and in python script instead of external apps. Ok, so we know *HOW* to fix it. Nod if you understand... ok, now, for the second, truly very annoying problem. I love the feature in kwin that allows windows to auto-attract to each other, I can't remember what it's called, but, I don't care, they basically snap together, and that's nice, helps me keep things well organized without much effort. But, heh, why in god's name do my windows need to snap to the real border of a karamba item? I cannot possibly be the only person who has noticed this extreme bug... ok fix those two things and I'll be sold.

-picky bastard
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