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    Phoronix: KDE Plasma 5.4 Beta Now Available

    The beta is out today of the KDE Plasma 5.4 update, which brings new desktop features to the modern KDE desktop stack...

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  • #2
    This is great news. With the reworked pulseaudio support, I might not have to install pavucontrol to get my microphone working when I do a hangouts video chat!
    Super excited.
    The new launcher looks cool too.

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    • #3
      Even though it's only a bullet point, the "Smaller Memory Footprint" point can be filed into understatement of the year. 5.4 has some significant memory reduction based on the way Plasma handles widget memory; Here's Kai Uwe B's G+ post on it.
      Last edited by Kver; 11 August 2015, 10:39 AM.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Kver View Post
        Even though it's only a bullet point, the "Smaller Memory Footprint" point can be filed into understatement of the year. 5.4 has some significant memory reduction based on the way Plasma handles widget memory; Here's Kai Uwe B's G+ post on it.
        Link doesn't work.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by bug77 View Post

          Link doesn't work.
          Sorry, didn't see that he only shared it with extended circles. My bad.
          It's a screenshot of PlasmaShell using 92Mb or RAM.
          Last edited by Kver; 11 August 2015, 12:40 PM.

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          • #6
            inb4 thousands multi-display bugs and crashes not fixed.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Kver View Post

              Sorry, didn't see that he only shared it with extended circles. My bad.
              It's a screenshot of PlasmaShell using 92Mb or RAM.


              OTOH other KDE devs (I believe mostly Martin Graesslin) argue that memory usage can't even measured scientifically because too many factors play a role.
              Personally, I don't care about a 60MB difference in RAM consumption. Even my freaking phone has 2GB and that's a 2013 model.

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              • #8
                The amount of initial ram used is not extremely relevant. What matters is how static it is.
                Plasma-desktop (plasma4) memory usage used to only increase by ~20MB per week.

                Gnome-shell 3.16 for example increases by 10MB per hour and then around 5MB per hour when 75% of system memory is used.

                My system has only 4GB ram but I still would rather have something use 300MB and stay around that much after a week than something that uses 90MB and goes up indefinitely by 10MB per hour.

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