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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Hi - Why we don't use kdeinit_wrapper normal ?
From:       Simon Hausmann <sh () caldera ! de>
Date:       2001-04-26 18:03:48
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On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:27:46PM +0200, Cullmann Christoph wrote:
> Hi,
> why we don't install the progs as for example instead of konqueror executable 
> a konqueror.la and ln -s konqueror kdeinit_wrapper, that gives kde much more 
> speed.

Most users start their applications from other applications which are already
kdeinit-enabled, that is they call kdeinit to actually launch the application.
kicker or kdesktop for example. In this case the usage of kdeinit_wrapper
does not change anything, as it would not be called at all.

But for developers it is handy to be able to do 'gdb application' and start
debugging. For them it it doesn't matter in this case that the startup 
takes a bit longer, I would say.

The people launching their applications from the terminal are used to the
application being attached to the terminal they type 'konqueror' or the
like in, as that's how it works for all unix applications. This means the
terminal ownership is transferred (also in terms of application text output)
to this application and the user has the possibility to utilize the shell's 
job control features to handle multiple. Using kdeinit_wrapper completely
breaks this pattern and I believe it would just confuse the users (at least
it confuses me :-)

IMHO

Bye,
 Simon 

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