From kde-core-devel  Tue Jun 14 16:32:28 2005
From: Jakub Stachowski <stachowski () hypair ! net>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:32:28 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KIconLoader improvements: icon server
Message-Id: <200506141832.28925.stachowski () hypair ! net>
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Dnia wtorek, 14 czerwca 2005 18:02, Benjamin Meyer napisał:
> On Tuesday 14 June 2005 9:33 am, Gustavo Pichorim Boiko wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > There has been a discussion on kde-optimize about KIconLoader
> > improvements. I'm working to create an icon server that is used to share
> > icons between applications. The original idea and its initial
> > implementation is from Lubos Lunak.
> > The idea is to have a daemon running
>
> [snip]
>
> > I have been playing with it and it is quite stable. I have some results
> > (I didn't measure memory usage yet, just time for loading icons) that I
> > want you to take a look:
> >
> > test1: 369 icons (32x32)
> > w/o disk cache: 3628 ms
> > cached: 361 ms
> > iconserver: 74 ms
> > ------------------------
> > test2: 222 icons (48x48)
> > w/o disk cache: 2262 ms
> > cached: 322 ms
> > iconserver: 35ms
> > ------------------------
> > test3: 774 icons (32x32)
> > w/o disk cache: 4974 ms
> > cached: 1170 ms
> > iconserver: 709 ms
> >
> > The patch for this icon server is attached.
> > Please take it a look and give me a feedback about that.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
>
> Can it be?  real numbers and stats?  :)  Thanks for adding these real
> numbers to show that it is better vs a hunch.
>
> Would you be able to generate some stats on the number of icons that are
> shared across applications?  I am just wondering if there only a few dozen
> images that are shared and it wont scale much beyond that and if that is
> the best we could get is adding the extra layer of complexity worth it?

After hacking iconserver to show all icons with usage count>1 I got 91 shared 
icons (out of 271 total) with running konsole,kate,digikam,kdcop and 
konqueror. After starting kcontrol there was 161 shared icons.


> In 
> KDE4 there is a lot of talk moving the toolbars to seven or so important
> action with large icons with text.  This would cut down on many of the
> icons that are loaded.
>
> -Benjamin Meyer