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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Easier Searching in KDE
From:       Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <gustavo () gsbarbieri ! sytes ! net>
Date:       2004-05-25 20:10:21
Message-ID: 200405251710.22072.gustavo () gsbarbieri ! sytes ! net
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Em Tuesday 25 May 2004 16:46, Dik Takken escreveu:
> > - From a technical point of view, widgets in X11 are confined to a safe
> > maximum height and width of about 4000 pixels (i. e. neither height nor
> > width can be safely larger than 4000px). That's only about 5 pages of
> > text.
>
> Ok, so that's not an option.

It's not an option to render everything in one go, but it can be done as other 
widgets capable of displaying long views... 
	Maybe I'm talking bullshit, but it can be done in 2 ways:
		1) render off screen and blit just the view part to the screen
		2) render on demand.


> > khtml should be reasonably fast except for very long documents.
>
> So we are going to have every search plugin output a piece of
> beautiful html/xml/whatever? Well, for the 'Extensive' mode as used in the
> search application, this might be a very good idea. From the developer's
> point of view, it simplifies things a lot too, I think.

KHTML will help to simplify things, but maybe it can bring a layer more and 
that could be slow. I mean, build the html tree, then parse the html and 
build the representation... It's too general. If we can bypass the html and 
just give the internal representation, that will be faster.

> As for the 'Brief' mode, as used in the KFileDialog search, we don't need
> anything as advanced, so we should stick to simple list/iconview widgets
> there. If only because we don't want to load khtml whenever a KFileDialog
> pops up.. :)

sure!

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