[Gwenview-general] Re: [Kde-imaging] KIPI initialization

[Lubos Lunak]

On Tuesday 14 of June 2005 17:46, Renchi Raju wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > On Tuesday 14 of June 2005 00:37, Aurelien Gateau wrote:
> >> Le Lundi 13 Juin 2005 17:24, Renchi Raju a écrit :
> >>> looks fine. though, i think you will gain better startup speeds by
> >>> doing a delayed initialization of the pluginloader instance itself.
> >
> > That however disables the plugins completely. In Gwenview it's possible
> > to assign keyboard shortcuts to KIPI plugins, and theoretically it should
> > be also possible to have toolbar icons for them. That wouldn't work with
> > delayed initialization of the pluginloader itself.
>
> i fail to understand why not. do a delayed initialization of the
> pluginloader and when the plugins are loaded, assign them keyboard
> shortcuts and/or toolbar icons. in any case the actions for the plugin
> actions are not instantiated unless you load the plugin, so i don't see
> how you can assign keyboard shortcuts/icons to them before that.

 Ah, this kind of delayed initialization. But there would be the problem of 
when to do the real initialization. Currently there's no delaying at all, 
which means even showing of the window gets slowed. If I do the 
initialization after the window is shown and before the image is drawn, it 
will slow down drawing of the image. If I move it even further to when the 
app is completely idle, the user can already try to use a plugin by that time 
(Gwenview loads and shows images incrementally). This would of course be no 
problem when the plugin is activated using the popup menu, it loads the 
plugins in the popup's aboutToShow(), but for the shortcuts I need to know 
the list of possible actions and their shortcuts at the time the app is still 
busy.

 Of course the chance that the user would try to use a KIPI plugin while 
Gwenview is still busy loading the image or doing something else is rather 
small, but still, unless I find some serious problem I find delayed 
initialization of only the plugins themselves a better solution.

> > Is the new version number 0.1.2 ok with you?
>
> that should be fine.
 
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