In earlier planetkde posts when someone was designing something, they used the “bars” kind a progress bar for 0-100% information. So the 0-100% scale was made from 20 blocks what makes it hard to read.

But now we have CPU frequency about, and you dont usually have many steps on it, and we have solid progress bar for it

What if you make the progress bar from blocks, one block represents the one step. If the plasmoid (or is this widget?) can read the ACPI information, it knows how many steps does CPU support. And then it could show the right steps. And then user could just easily understand it.

Or then I have misunderstand the bar, what should really show the CPU usage like on Feezee comment.

But if it idea is to show throttling state, then it should be bars.
Mayby a leds or blocks what are from green to red.
Then user would know that what is the processed HEAT of the CPU and how egological it is for environment (green meter )

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Something like that… The both cores are shown (or multiple CPU’s) and upper one is just showing the middle state so the saturation is lowered from levels what is not used.

In earlier planetkde posts when someone was designing something, they used the “bars” kind a progress bar for 0-100% information. So the 0-100% scale was made from 20 blocks what makes it hard to read.

But now we have CPU frequency about, and you dont usually have many steps on it, and we have solid progress bar for it

What if you make the progress bar from blocks, one block represents the one step. If the plasmoid (or is this widget?) can read the ACPI information, it knows how many steps does CPU support. And then it could show the right steps. And then user could just easily understand it.

Or then I have misunderstand the bar, what should really show the CPU usage like on Feezee comment.

But if it idea is throttling

May I suggest that the icon for full brigthness be a lit lightbulb. It would help with visual continuity and it would be hot!”

I would rather prefere the way it is. This black and yellow thingy is just stylish(TM).

Excellent work so far ruphy!

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Will there be two CPU bars for dual-core computers? I think that is important, especially if you turn off one of the CPUs (that bar can be grayed out)

Having the battery percent superimposed on the battery icon might save some space. This would be similar to the mouse-over on the current battery plasma applet. Also, I assume the batter icon will change depending on whether you are on batter or on AC? Also, having it change colors depending on the current level (green for good, yellow for low, orange for warning, red for critical, etc.) if you it doesn’t already. Having the notches on the batter icons correspond, in terms of percentage, to the cutoff-point for the 4 different levels (good, low, warning, critical) would also be cool (but not as important).

I think a numerical percentage is important for brightness slider, both for the plasma applet and for the power-devil systemsettings section. For the plasma applet having it fade in when you move the slider and then disappear when you are done with it might make things a bit cleaner. Also, having one icon that gets brighter or dimmer depending on the slider position might be a bit cleaner-looking as well.

Will there be a way to display your graphics card activity level in the same way as your CPU activity?