Kicker performance: KIconEffect :: visualActivate( ... );

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Wednesday 22 October 2003 02:12 pm, David Faure wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 October 2003 13:52, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > We have async dcop calls now, so it should be possible to make krun async
> > and do the visual effect after activation.
> >
> > The bad part is that all of our zillion KRun::run functions return pid so
> > we either need to add a flag to them to say that we don't care about the
> > pid, or make a new set of KRun::runAsync functions.
>
> I'm not exactly sure which parts you want to parallelize here.
> The actual KRun code itself should be rather fast.
> Is it KProcess::start() that's taking a long time? Hmm I guess so, it has
> to locate the binary and execute it, before knowing the pid...

KRun normally doesn't use KProcess / KProcessRunner but it asks klauncher to 
start the application via dcop (via KApplication::startServiceByDesktopPath)

KApplication::startServiceByDesktopPath has in fact already a "noWait" flag, 
but that means you don't get any feedback on errors at all, I guess those 
functions need to be expanded  with async operation as well.

Cheers,
Waldo
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