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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE in the Kernel
From:       Piotr =?iso-8859-2?q?Szyma=F1ski?= <djurban () tenbit ! pl>
Date:       2002-04-14 12:49:50
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Hi,
I really believe that putting konq in the kernel is a _VERY_BAD_ idea.
1.) People are trying to gain speed by outting as much as possible into the 
kernel (ex. a httpd server)  should we follow this tendency in several years 
we will see kmail in the kernel, maybe kopete? Why should we load one app nto 
the kernel and leave the others out, what benefits does it give me that 
konqueror will load 2,5 sec and kmail 45 sec?
2.)KDE already has tremendous hardware requirements, which disqualify it in 
the Central and Easter Europe, because peoples earnings are not high enough 
for them to buy modern comuper (processor >800 mhz, >128 MB), windows is very 
fast on that machines, but KDE is not. Trying to waste memory by putting 
konqueror or any kde app there is not a very good idea. 
3.)Not everyone uses linux! The idea of oss is feedom of choice, therefore we 
have no right to bind kde user to linux just because we want konqueror to go 
faster.

The idea should be to optimize and prelink the code as much as possible 
without losing stability, not putting as much a possible into the kernel. I 
am sure, that without resorting to this, we can make konqueror go much 
faster. As for windows,  ie is not loaded into the kernel, because you can 
very well not install ie, and exchange explorer.exe for any other shell in 
win.ini, so microsoft did not use go way and I do not hink we should either.

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