performance tips wanted

[Lubos Lunak]

On Wednesday 08 of January 2003 04:47, Maks Orlovich wrote:
> >  time to make this list useful. In order to make everybody notice in the
> > announcement (coming RSN) that this list is not for clueless users, I
> > plan to post a link to a page with some performance tips next to it ;).
> > Right now at http://dforce.sh.cvut.cz/~seli/download/tips.html , still
> > work in progress (mostly based on one older mail of mine). In case
> > somebody knows some more that could be added, please tell. Thanks.
>
> Well, one easy tip:
> (KDE >= 3.1) If you don't use bookmarks toolbar, turn it off. Doing so will
> save time building the UI, loading the favicons, etc. (reading bookmarks
> itself, too)

 Aren't the menus of the toolbar built on-demand? That's bad :(. But this 
toolbar isn't enabled by default, is it?

>
> Turning off background images for the iconview saves some time, too (I
> think it was like 70ms here - scary stuff).

 That's part of the 'turn off stupid eyecandy'.

>
> (I wonder how much one can save by hiding the cogwheel? ;-) )
>
> Oh, and "Upgrade to KDE3.1" is a good tip, too, I think.

 Important one :).

>
> BTW, when do you think would be a good time to backport the kimggallery and
> the kfmclient speed ups? 3.1.1 timeframe?*

 I forgot, we probably could do that :). I know nothing about kimggallery.

>
> *I would have done the image gallery one immediately if I understood how
> one could get the -no-undefined stuff to work.

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Lubos Lunak
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