[Bug 161958] New: get hot new stuff takes much memory

[Przemyslaw Kaminski]

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           Summary: get hot new stuff takes much memory
           Product: kde
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Compiled Sources
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs kde org
        ReportedBy: cgenie gmail com


Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
OS:                Linux

When I enter the 'Get Hot New Stuff' dialog, for example to download new desktop themes, KDE starts up many kio_file processes, each of them uses 2% of memory (I have 512MB plus 1G of swap). When there are many things to download (themes, wallpapers, emoticons, whatever) this just causes some big memory usage, swap space is used heavily and I need to wait for a couple of minutes for everything to settle down. I suppose this is because GHNS tries to download all the image previews at the same time.
Maybe the GHNS dialog should be split into several pages (with, for example, 10 items on each page) so that the resources aren't used that much.