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List:       kopete-devel
Subject:    Re: [Kopete-devel] Contact List overhaul
From:       Ryan Cumming <bodnar42 () phalynx ! dhs ! org>
Date:       2002-06-02 18:48:27
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On June 2, 2002 07:33, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> And I have the slight feeling the latter is the truly slow part, but I
> haven't done any profiling to confirm that. That's also another reason why
> I rather want to load contacts in the background during Kopete startup
> rather than during connect: it makes the GUI 'feel' faster, because the
> connect is done way faster. The fact that the same amount of work is still
> done is much less noticable to the end user.

The main reason for this is that the contact list is resorted and redrawn 
every time a contact is added. It might be worthwhile to be able to "lock" 
the contact list before adding the first contact, and then "unlocking" it 
after the last contact is added. It would certainly be faster.

- -Ryan
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