[Kde-imaging] Fwd: On-demand-loading of KIPI plugins

[Lubos Lunak]

On Monday 28 November 2005 00:24, Tom Albers wrote:
> Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:
> > I'm all for this change. Faster start up is a good thing.
>
> I doubt that ;-)
> When it results in unresponsive gui when people choose to do a
> kipi-action, because it has to load the kipi-plugin, I would rather
> think it is a very bad thing. I rather have a small delay in startup
> then delays when using the program.

 Basic premise: Loading one plugin is relatively fast, loading many of them is 
not. Which more or less already says everything. Digikam users may be fine 
with long startup, but e.g. in Gwenview's case it's often started just to 
view a single image and there the long startup hurts. Moreover all those 
loaded unused plugins also waste memory.

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