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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Feature freeze and message freeze
From:       Simon Hausmann <sh () caldera ! de>
Date:       2001-01-16 15:49:48
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On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 04:31:39PM +0100, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > > Maybe XMLGUI could be acceleerated ?
> > > Just some thoughts, didn't try, didn't measure, nothing:
> > > AFAIK e.g. konqy loads everytime several xml-files: the global konqy one, my
> > > private konqy one, two times the one for the listview (I have two views open).
> > > Would it help to create after parsing and merging a binary file of this
> > > information, which only has to be updated if one of the source files changed ?
> > > This would save parsing and merging, I didn't test (I'm no expert in XMLGUI
> > > stuff), but I think it could help.
> > > Could ksycoca be used for this ?
> > 
> > Someone at the Caldera office had a very interesting idea for the first build
> > of the GUI: Why waste our time with building all the many popupmenus/submenus
> > of the main GUI? It would be a lot smarter to build them on-demand the first
> > time they are about to be shown (making use of the aboutToShow() signal) .
> > Thanks to our abstraction of when and how the GUI is built this is fairly
> > easy to implement. The question is: Shall we wait till post-2.1 or shall
> > we give it a try now (with the risk that it possibly introduces bugs, after
> > all it's a new feature)
> > 
> > What do you think?
> That we still have enough old bugs. As Matthias said: the priorities for 2.2 ...

I fully agree.

Bye,
 Simon

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