KNewStuff2 merge

[Josef Spillner]

Am Montag, 26. März 2007 20:03 schrieb Mike Dean:
> It would be really nice if KNewStuff did prefetching, to avoid the annoying
> lag, and caching of already retrieved information.  Either getting rid of
> displaying the progress dialog, or integrating it into the KNewStuff UI
> would be a very welcome improvement as well.  Making these small changes,
> IMHO, would give KNewStuff a much more polished look and feel.  If you've
> already done this, sorry, and kudos!

It does that already, indeed (*).
We don't remove the cache yet and so your HDD will fill up over time. Such 
changes are > April 2.

Even in KDE 3.5 there shouldn't be progress dialogs anymore, I've modified all 
KIO calls AFAICR.

Josef

(*) ok, let me become a bit more technical since we're already at it. It 
currently saves each entry into a file on its own. Loading them all in a row 
and deserialising the information takes long enough to let the dialog appear 
blocking for half a second or so. Since space isn't so much an issue, there 
could be a more efficient mapping (if mmap is enabled), but we can also do 
the loading in parallel (use threading). Either of the two will happen 
eventually, patches are welcome.