From kde-core-devel  Fri Dec 21 02:29:11 2001
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 02:29:11 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: icon server
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=100890145203343

On Monday 17 December 2001 02:26 pm, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> If this icon
> server is not fast enough, then whoever came first with the idea that i=
con
> loading is slow, was wrong.
>
>  Well ... comments?

Yes, I'm afraid we ain't gonna win much with this :-( I don't think icon=20
loading is very slow btw, but it is something which costs considerable ti=
me,=20
as such it is a candidate for improvement.

On to plan B then.. that would be to try to delay loading icons as much a=
s=20
possible. E.g. icons used in menu's theoretically don't need to be loaded=
=20
until the menu is actually shown. Konqueror loads about 150 icons on star=
tup,=20
(50 of which are for the cogwheel) but I only see about 30 icons on the=20
screen. That seems to indicate that we can load about 70 icons later.

Some other things I noticed while looking at konqueror with strace:
* We load about 50 images for the rotating cogwheel, making that a single=
 .mng=20
should be faster one would think.
* favicons that aren't there are searched in about 20 directories where t=
hey=20
most certainly will not be either. It is really not neccessary to look fo=
r=20
/ext/kde-head/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/mimetypes/favicons/developer.kde.=
org.png=20

Cheers,
Waldo