Resedit (Was: Proposal for KControl)j

[aleXXX]

On Wednesday 03 July 2002 19:30, Alexander Kellett wrote:
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> <thoughts>
>
> do all apps parse all config files?, isn't there only 3/4 files
> relevant for any given application?

Unfortunately I think this is not the case.
The system-global and user-local config files are read and merged, for the 
gloabl kde config, the app config, icon config, icon theme config files,...

> looking at a strace shows:
>    large number of stat's for finding libs

Only thing to do about this is to configure your ld.so so, that the dirs 
where the most libraries sit, are searched first.

>    huge amount of xft/x related font stuff
>    qtrc reading
>    locale stuff

>    icon stuff - i still wonder why it has to parse all dirs,
>                 and not just give 'unknown' icons for incomplete themes

Yes, it more or less looks in every possible subdir for an icon, in several 
sizes, bit depths, themes,....
But at least the most common places at first.

If Waldo is right and Qt 3.1 will have icon loading on demand (i.e. read the 
icon from disk when it is rendered the first time ?) this will speedup app 
startup noticable. A lot (like more than 50 percent or so) of the time when 
building the xml gui is spent loading all the icons. For konqy building the 
xml gui takes quite some time, at least more than 1 sec, maybe even 2 sec, 
saving 1 sec here would be a good thing :-)
(times measured on K6/200)

Bye
Alex