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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Proposal to use QIcon in APIs in KF5.
From:       Olivier Goffart <ogoffart () kde ! org>
Date:       2011-09-08 10:00:29
Message-ID: 1899622.2UhEhFHHBF () l09
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On Thursday 08 September 2011 10:54:02 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Thursday, September 08, 2011 09:17:00 Jaime wrote:
> >   We should assume that Qt5 will have some kind of global icon cache,
> > 
> > valid for every Qt application run in one machine, like KIcon has now.
> > Am I Right?
> 
> Per application, it seems. That's probably still a bit behind KIcon's
> KSharedDataCache (which works across processes), but I don't really know the
> details here.

Yes, The QIcon cache is per application. (not global.)

But what is really the performence gain?

Anyway, this is still something that can be added into Qt 5.x
I think Qt would benefit from something like KSharedDataCache, not only for 
the icon cache, but also for the font cache, and many other caches.



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