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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: added debug areas
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2003-10-13 18:46:52
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So again KDE is only for GHZ CPUs and monster HD.

Sometimes I really wonder why I lose my time on KOffice.

On Monday 13 October 2003 20:33, George Staikos wrote:
> On Monday 13 October 2003 14:03, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > That is why I think that this new policy is a big drawback. And I wonder
> > why we are fighting for one debug area, as KOffice will surely create
> > much more in future. And why suddenly attacking Shaheed with this, as
> > many many applications got debug areas before? And especially why writing
> > (or at least suggesting)  that applications never got debug areas before?
> > That is just nonsence!
> >
> > That is why I do not understand Stephan Kulow's and George Staikos's
> > interventions. If kdebug is slow, then we have to make it faster. If it
> > does not work, then we have to think something for KDE 4. But changing
> > the policy in the middle of KDE3 is extremely curious to me.
>
>   Do you know about grep(1)?  This will solve your problems, more quickly
> than launching and playing with kdebugdialog too.  Meanwhile, the policy as
> far as I remember has always been that kdebug.areas is for libraries, not
> applications.  It is unnecessary for applications.  It is necessary for
> libraries.  Exceptions: constantly running apps like kded, which loads many
> modules, need debug areas to separate the debug info coming from each of
> the modules.  KIOSlaves are also similar exceptions.  There are others. 
> I'm sure kdebug.areas is and has been used for silly things before, but we
> really shouldn't be adding single debug areas for single stand-alone apps,
> especially not even in KDE standard distribution.  All it means is a bigger
> kdebug.areas file too parse on startup and bigger log files.  Yes, mine is
> presently 300MB - less than a week old.

 
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