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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: unnecessary libs ?
From:       CP Hennessy <CP.Hennessy () iname ! com>
Date:       2002-08-02 0:01:11
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On Thursday 01 August 2002 21:37, aleXXX wrote:
[snip]
> > Anyway this led me to look around at other apps and I have a few
> > questions :
> >
> > 1)	Other places where libkonq is linked is
> > 	kdesktop.so, keditbookmarks.so, kicker.so
>
> kdesktop shares a lot of code with konqy,  all the file management
> operations you can do on the desktop live in libkonq, also some parts of
> the icon stuff, so this one really depends on libkonq.
Ahh, OK.

>
> > 	but I think that for all 3 of them all they really need is
> > 	the KBookmarkManager class ( and related Bookmark classes ).
> > 	Linking with libkonq just for these classes is quite
> > 	expensive for startup time (see above for appletproxy
> > 	startup times) and memory consumed (sorry, no figures at
> > 	hand but I have seem 3MB less *per* appletproxy at
> > 	work );
> >
> > 2)	libkio.so also has libkdesu.so linked, but only the class
> > 	KDEsuClient seems to be used. Is it worth moving
> > 	KDEsuClient into libkio, to save the time for linking with
> > 	libkdesu.so ?
And this one ?

> Nice that somebody looks for these things :-)
> In some cases there are indeed unnecessary libs, just watch out carefully.
> If you find something, test it, send a patch, if nobody objects, apply it.
> If it was wrong, you won't miss it ;-)
No problem, I hopefully can contribute something back to such a useful project.
I still think that my patch against kicker/share/Makefile.am is valid.
Or at least it works well for me.

Thanks
CP
 
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