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

[Tom Albers]

Lubos Lunak schreef:
> 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.
> 


The conclusion is that we need to have both systems.

Toma