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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: RE: konqy issues (22.02.2000)
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () suse ! de>
Date:       2000-02-26 13:57:19
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On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, David Faure wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 05:41:42PM +0100, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > > > On Fre, 25 Feb 2000, David Faure wrote:
> > > > > > Konqy takes quite some time to load. :-(
> > > > >
> > > > > Does it ? More than before ?
> > > >
> > > > I think not longer than KRASH konqy, but longer than kfm, and
> > > > ages longer than mc in xterm.
> > > > AFAIK there is this kdeinit thingy, does konqy use it ? Would
> > > > this make it faster ?
> > >
> > > Perhaps. Or does it impact only on memory usage ? Waldo ?
> >
> > It improves both startup time as well as memory usage.
> >
> > > This would mean ... making kfmclient use klauncher, in fact.
> > > Seems a good idea.
> >
> > Yup.
>
> How do I do that ?
> Please document all the arguments in the startService* methods...

Done.

> I want to start konqueror.
> I can't use startServiceByName because it says "translated name of
> the service" which I don't know - this seems a not very useful
> method.

True.

> Hmm, let's try with ByDesktopName and giving konqueror.desktop ...
> Result : Could not find service 'konqueror.desktop'.
> Hmmmm... Trying with "konqueror" - this should really be documented.
> Gosh ! kcontrol gets launched ! There are two files named
> konqueror.desktop...

That's a bug then. Compare it with having two binaries called konqueror.

> And if use the third one (startServiceByDesktopPath), it means
> I rely on whereever that .desktop file is installed.
> If the user moves it in the K menu, I'm lost.

You shouldn't use that one.

> There is really something wrong with startServiceByDesktopPath.
> One should never rely on the layout of $KDEDIR/applnk...
>
> Hmm, damn. I just want to fire up konqy ! ;-)

Could not launch konqy. No such service. >:-)

Cheers,
Waldo

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