startup time: autostart

[Matthias Ettrich]

On Tuesday 21 May 2002 19:39, Lubos Lunak wrote:
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>  I don't think this would help that much. Apps register very early with
> DCOP, for KUniqueApps it's even before QApplication constructor, and I
> think these days just loading the binary is the smaller part of the startup
> time (I may be wrong though). Waiting longer (until they map a window?)
> would probably give better results.

Some apps never map a window. We could introduce a DCOP signal 
upAndRunning(appname) that the apps emit when they are really ready, and 
store this in the desktop file.

Hmm.. this looks very much like startup notification, doesn't it?


Matthias