From kde-core-devel  Tue May 30 11:09:24 2000
From: Harri Porten <porten () tu-harburg ! de>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 11:09:24 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Cool Helix startup [Fwd: K-ARTIST:Startup?]
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Martin Konold wrote:
> 
> On Die, 30 Mai 2000, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> > #if Kurt Granroth
> >
> > > Yep.. isn't Rik working on something like this, though?
> >
> > Yes. I have something that works ok, but I want to convert it to use
> > only libICE instead of libDCOP (which links with libQt) to make it
> > appear fast. What we really need is an artist to come up with something
> 
> I serdoubt that you will gain significant speed but you definetely will
> increase the complexity while loosing maintainability.

At least on my system the difference would certainly be noticable. It
would be a great way to start with plain C bindings, though. They are
definitely needed for interoperability with non-C++
applications/scripting languages that want to talk to KDE :)

Harri.

P.S. Shameless plug: I was surprised to see helixcode using JavaScript.
Gnome users won't be able to enjoy the effects for quite some time. KDE
users can. Try it out ;)