From kde-devel  Thu Nov 08 13:16:50 2007
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?K=E5re_S=E4rs?= <kare.sars () kolumbus ! fi>
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:16:50 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: ktempfile
Message-Id: <200711081516.51229.kare.sars () kolumbus ! fi>
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On Thursday 08 November 2007, David Faure wrote:
> I think that what people missed in this thread is that history is shared
> among konqueror windows, which could be in different processes. So we do
> need to write to the file immediately so that your url comboboxes all have
> the new url in it (this isn't about statistics, it's about the url combo's
> items). Well, more precisely: the new url is sent to other windows using
> dcop/dbus, but if you open a new window (in a new process) it will read
> from the kconfig file. So a 5 minutes autosave would just lead to bugs.
>

Using the hard drive for Inter Process Communication is not very efficient :( 
Couldn't the new process ask the old ones for the current url history and 
then if that fails read from the disk?

/Kåre

 
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