Version: (using Devel) Compiler: gcc 4.3.4 OS: Linux Installed from: Compiled sources System monitor plasmoid had options to modify its appearance in KDE SC 4.3. This function is gone in 4.3.90 aka KDE SC 4.4 RC1. Configuration dialog no longer has this option and it is not possible to modify color of the graph, whether it should display text etc. Currently it has only gray colour, displays the gradient background and shows all the text like network interface name, CPU number, capacity of the RAM and so on.
I can confirm this bug in KDE 4.4 This is very annoying especially for RAM monitor as the number that indicates RAM usage exceeds the plasmoid 's length when in tray.
I confirm this in the final 4.4.0 release (Gentoo).
I think it's possible to live with one predefined color(but not ), but the text on top is really annoying and there is no way to remove it. Dear developers, please restore previous functionality(all of it).
Is there an option in plasma-desktop-appletsrc to hide the text (labels) of the system monitor, so at least we can do this by hand?
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I second Vasileios's question: is there a hidden option to hide the label? I can live with the rest.
Let's hope this option will return in 4.4.1.
The monitor plasmoids got some love in 4.6 :) They look significantly prettier and tidier. It looks like there's no appearance configuration any more, though.
Yes, at least look of the monitor has indeed improved. But it would be certainly better if you can, for example define different colors for different network monitors etc. (not that I dislike current choice of colors).
BTW under Gentoo I still get for kde-base/plasma-workspace-4.6.3-r2 : * QA Notice: Package has poor programming practices which may compile * fine but exhibit random runtime failures. * /usr/include/KDE/../kdebug.h:260: warning: array subscript is above array bounds Is this a harmless warning ?
What a pity that those colors never came back.
*** Bug 230775 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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