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We should have option for setting "KDE Performance Profiles"

We should be able to select appropriate profile and KDE will enable or disable some of its functionality accordingly.

KDE will disable some features which require high memory or high processing power once we select lower performance profile.

For eg.

- KDE Light - This will be optimized for low memory and low processor machines
- KDE Moderate - This will be optimized for moderate memory and processor machines
- KDE Complete - This will enable all the features

This way KDE can give best performance even on lower end machines.

We should be able to customize these profiles and also to add new profiles by enabling / disabling various features from the list.

OMG this is really a great idea, and seems easy to implement.
This would be great for netbooks that are using plasma-netbook shell, to easily gain some speed, without a need to tangle trough dozen of options.

In KDE 4.4 oxygen has this for the oxygen widget elements, it makes sense to extend it to the rest of the system.

MirzaD wrote:OMG this is really a great idea, and seems easy to implement.
This would be great for netbooks that are using plasma-netbook shell, to easily gain some speed, without a need to tangle trough dozen of options.

What's wrong with adapting the power-saving profiles in system settings?

@annew
You may be missing the point, it is not necessarily about power usage, but about performance. These include things like:oxygen animations, desktop effects, nepomuk and strigi activation !

They may be related to power usage and power-saving profiles, but are not the same thing.

No, I'm not missing the point. Power-saving and performance *are* related. Have you actually tried to see whether you could get the effects you want by using these options?

yes I have tried, and no I can't.
I would disagree that these two are related, even though they share some things in common, it would be wrong to pack them together.
There are power-saving specific tweaks like screen brightness, turning off the wifi adapter,turning off one core in multicore CPU, etc.
On the other hand there are specific performance tweaks like: oxygen animations, services that are enabled by default like nepomuk and strigi, disabling previews in dolphin, etc.

Wouldn't it be strange to configure brightness in the same place as desktop services like nepomouk?
If i remember exactly in Win XP there is specific setting window to configure performance and effects, and separate window for battery usage.