startup time: autostart

[Rik Hemsley]

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#if Matthias Ettrich
> On slow machines with little memory, starting those ~9 applications
> at the same time (including bigger ones like kicker and kdesktop)
> causes significant activity, hence the modified startkde scripts.

Even on fast machines with lots of memory, your disk is seeking all over
the place to get these apps into core, so ...

> This would serialize the startup to a large degree and could result
> in a faster and more straightforward startup without adding arbitrary
> waits or sleeps.

... yes, seems like a good idea. Looking forward to measurements :)

Rik

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