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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: More thoughts about embedding
From:       weis <weis () stud ! uni-frankfurt ! de>
Date:       1999-09-30 15:24:42
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Hi,

On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Reginald Stadlbauer wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, David Faure wrote:
> >I think we are mixing issues.
> >
> >(The first part replies especially to Reggie's "embedding doesn't work in
> >koffice anyway")
> >
> >Sure, embedding doesn't work well in koffice currently,
> >but konqueror is the living proof that embedding can work really fine.
> >And you'll notice that it works very well with 'local views'
> >(icon, html, text, ...) and somewhat well with remote views,
> >(kview, ...) but not as well. Why ? Because servers are bad, I already said
> >that.
> 
> My biggest concern here is not only stableness, but also speed. In konqy you
> will not have more than a view embedded parts, but in a koffice doc I can
> imagine 50 embedded parts. And will get unusable slow, I think.

Even worse. Imagine a master thesis with many embedded formulas.
This is solved by hacking it in KWord instead of using CORBA embedding.
And that just shows that the CORBA stuff is inferior.

Bye
Torben

> -- 
> Reggie
> 
> 

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