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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: big *thank you* for the latest developments
From:       Martin Konold <konold () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1999-10-19 19:38:29
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On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Matthias Ettrich wrote:

> Yes, there are ways to hack around this, but why? If you run an cd-player
> applet, you can easily run another process. After all, processes are not _that_
> expensive and they offer a fair bit stability (crashing or hanging cd-player
> won't crash kicker). 

From the point of view of handling processes for Unix it is no problem but
a full featured kapplets has a significant memory footprint.

IMHO trivial stuff like a simply clock and Pager should remain in the
Panel so that people who do not have the extra memory can still uses this
functionality.

Regards,
-- martin

// Martin Konold, Herrenbergerstr. 14, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany  //
KDE:  A stable GUI for a reliable OS.

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