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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: program loading
From:       rupert THURNER <rthurner () edu ! uni-klu ! ac ! at>
Date:       1999-02-25 9:55:40
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you seem to use a very fast computer :)

uwe@uwix.alt.na wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Take netscape - it's huge, and I think it's the fact that most people use
> > > the statically-linked version that makes it load slowly - loads pretty fast
> > > when Motif libs are already in core.
> >
> > On Linux perhaps, but I think the poor coding and just general bloat of
> > Communicator 4 contribute to its loading slowly.  IIRC the fbsd ld.so
> > mmaps whole libraries and the like, so you would still have the glacially
> > slow loading time, if you're linking in huge libraries..
> >
> > > Actually maybe it's the resolving symbols in all the libraries that's taking
> > > the time, but whatever...
> > >
> > > Point is, I don't like the splash screen on aesthetic grounds and on
> > > technical grounds - I think it'll appear closer to the app being mapped than
> > > the app starting to load.
> >
> > A splash screen shouldn't be that huge.. 640x480x8 at the _most_
> > (hopefully much smaller) so the bloat should be minimal.  It would be a
> > good indication that a program has been loaded...
> >
> > I think that klyx is the only K app I've seen with a splash screen.
> 
> Right. And I find it very annoying (I'm using KLyX quite a lot!). Besides,
> the splash screen is always under the KLyX window because KLyX' window
> pops up directly after the splash screen shows up. A good indicator that
> a splash screen doesn't serve the purpose.   ;-)
> 
> Uwe
> 
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