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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: mmaping icons
From:       David Faure <David.Faure () insa-lyon ! fr>
Date:       1999-02-12 16:45:39
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On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 04:37:25PM +0000, Jo Dillon wrote:
> David Faure (David.Faure@insa-lyon.fr) spake thusly:
> 
> > There is no contradiction. The server can be a corba server, with a clear
> > interface for apps to request pixmaps, but it still needs to be some sort
> > of a hidden window, because it needs to load Pixmaps - which you can't do
> > if you're not connected to a display, AFAIK.
> 
>   You don't need to make a window to be connected to a display.

True. Silly me.

Hum, on second thought, if the aim is to avoid duplication of the pixmaps
in memory, CORBA is _not_ the way to go for this thing. The object
requested will always be copied by the ORB... What is needed is shared
memory between processes.



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|  David FAURE                                                       |
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