From kde-core-devel  Tue Sep 05 08:46:51 2000
From: Chris Schlaeger <cs () kde ! org>
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 08:46:51 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: startkde
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=96814356015651

I vote in favor of this! It hopefully reduces the KDE startup time a
bit. Starting KDE takes way to long.

Chris

On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:31:19AM +0200, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just noticed that a lot of meant-to-be-configurable things in startkde are
> hardcoded.
> 
> For example: Do we really need kxmlrpcd on each and every desktop session?
> (at least for example I don't need it on my 64mb-ram laptop)
> 
> How about moving it to kdenetwork and starting it via a kcminit module?
> (combined with a kconfig check, so that there is at least a way to
> configure it via kconfig editing (at least ofr 2.0, as a kcontrol option
> would break translations))
> 
> IMHO the same applies for khotkeys and kwrited (the latter I like to run
> when I'm at work, but on my single-user-desktop at home I don't need it)
> 
> Opinions? Flames? :-)
> 
> 
> I volunteer to hack three kcminit modules to start those three components
> after a quick kconfig check, and remove their hardcoded entries from
> startkde, if people agree :-)
> 
> Bye,
>  Simon
> 

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