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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: big *thank you* for the latest developments
From:       Roberto Alsina <ralsina () unl ! edu ! ar>
Date:       1999-10-19 10:11:13
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On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Boris Povazay wrote:

> Martin Konold wrote:
> 
> > The problem imho arises as soon as standard kpanel/kicker functionality
> > gets shifted towards applets instead of beeing integrated. If we are not
> > careful this will add enourmeous bloat due to the fact that every
> > instance really uses up a lot of memory.
> 
> So how about an applet, that displays the memory and cpu consumption of
> all the other applets? P-)
> Honestly - You could get rid of this problem in a kind of evolutionary
> way - If the consumption of resources is good visible to the user, s/he
> will not use bloatware. So kicker could provide such a feature and the
> designers will follow without any need for further discussion...

There is an obvious way to avoid the extra RAM used by each instance of
KApplication and friends.

Make applets dynamically loaded libraries.

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