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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: libkio & libksycoca
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-11-28 1:19:18
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On Tuesday 27 November 2001 05:38 pm, aleXXX wrote:
> On Wed 28 Nov 01 01:22, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > I would almost be inclined to say that we should move all of
> > "kdecore/kdeui/kio/ksycoca/kfile/kparts" into a single libkde since t=
his
> > is all pretty much generic functionality. That way we could also use =
e.g.
> > KMessageBox in kdecore for error-reporting (when kapp is available).
>
> ... linking time....
> Removing -lkfile from konsole saved approx. 0.5 seconds here.

That problem has been solved in the linker by now.

> To me this sounds more like a design problem with the structure of the
> libs.

Yes. My proposal would solve that design problem.

> Don't know if this is stupid, but wouldn't it be possible to have a
> small lib which is dlopened() which provides the message boxes and pass=
owrd
> dialogs etc. ? And this one would be linked against kdeui, but kdecore =
or
> kio which would dlopen it wouldn't have to be linked against kdeui

That sounds butt-ugly and hackish to me.

Cheers,
Waldo

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