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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    RE: visibility?
From:       Espen Sand <espen.sand () neo ! no>
Date:       2000-03-08 7:37:22
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At 10:56 AM 3/8/00 +1100, you wrote:
>But I thought we talked about this and you confirmed it was much better in
the
>head branch (I mean a while go when KMail was working).
>
>I guess it's still going to be a bit slow it you have a large inbox. But
if your
>inbox is smallish then after an initial once of caching calculation KMail
>should start up in a reasonable amount of time (in the HEAD branch).
>
>No?

Sorry, It was not my intetion to confuse you :) It was just to hint
that a "launch indicator" can be very handy sometimes.

The KDE-2x version seems indeed faster, but I have not yet been able to test 
that one with a "Mail" directory on an NFS partition. I tried the KDE-2 
version on a machine with a local (quite large) Mail directory and compared 
with the stock 1.1.2 version it launched faster. 

btw1: I am a bit reluctant to use the KDE-2 regularily since it is still in 
development. If I use the KDE-2 version and then go back to the KDE-1 
version the username/password setting on my pop account is corrupted. 
This happend a few weeks ago but I was busy forgot to tell anyone else
about that.

btw2: Would not be an advantage to launch the app, make it visible 
and only then start the scanning of Mail directory? I would try with a 
oneShotTimer and in the slot (which is activated with a zero delay)
do something like:

slotStartupLoadMail()
{
  while( isVisible() == false ) // Perhaps with a timeout
  {
     processOneEvent();
  }
  startupLoadMail();
}

but perhaps something similar is planned or already done?


>
>BFN,
>Don.
>
>On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, Espen Sand wrote:
>> On Tue, 07 Mar 2000, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
>> >Huh????????
>> >
>> >Please run Netscape, click on a link and wait for the page. You'll see a 
>> >watch cursor if you're on the netscape page. Move it away from Netscape 
>> >window - the cursor is back to X.
>> >
>> >So whats the problem with this?
>> 
>> That is not a problem :) The problem appears when there is no window
because
>> the app. is loading. 
>> 
>> Speaking about load times. Try to start kmail with the "Mail" directory
on an
>> NFS partition (with 18 months+ of kde maillist mails). That is quite
"fun" :)
>> 

--
Espen Sand

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