24 excellent KDE Plasma widgets

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Thermal monitor is the only one of these Ive used.
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I've used a bunch. Redshitft, Qalcualte, KDE Connect (hate it), Simple System monitor, Color Picker, Thermal Monitor; but ultimately I don't keep any of them active because I don't need them constantly, and application that does the same job is easier to launch on demand than the widget.
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I use Psensor so I dont really use thermal monitor either.
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crosscourt wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2020 7:45 pm I use Psensor so I dont really use thermal monitor either.
That's what I use as well, and I only SOMETIMES run it. So while Thermal Monitor widget is, IMO, nicer looking (although not quite as configurable), I simply don't have use for it most of the time. And when I do want it, it's quicker to launch psensor than it is to reactivate thermal monitor. So most all these are kinda useless. The only one I had wanted to keep was KDE Connect, but IMO it lacks enough configuration to be usable (I only want SOME notifications, not all), and it ignores system settings, so if you're listening to music and get an email on your phone, your walls will suddenly start collapsing due to the sonic boom that your speakers just put out because it's always at 100% volume (may have been fixed, but was accurate as of plasma 5.17.5)
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Given the many widgets available in KDE Ive rarely used any of them over time.
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Definitely also true for me. I prefer too clean a desktop to use most of them for any real length of time. The ones that can run on the panel or sytem tray are the ones that have the most likelihood of keeping me using it.
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