Ways to opimize things.

[Neil Stevens]

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On Thursday January 16, 2003 08:09, list@jw.dyndns.org wrote:
> My experiense to kde is that kde needs to be smaller!
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> For example.
> Why, does kde use arts, without it kde woud be mutch smaller.

No, itt would be larger, because we'd have to duplicate all over KDE the=20
the same support for platform audio output, the same codecs, the same=20
buffering, the same filtering and plugins, the same resource sharing, the=20
same elevated priority support and protections, and the same network=20
transparency cover every application in KDE that uses aRts.

It'd probably be buggier, too, as it's highly unlikely that the same code=20
would be used and kept synchronized.

> Other things is the kio - interface. Its great but shoud be vritten in
> lowlevel c, put in the glibc package not in hi-level kdelibs, whoud it
> not greate to bring up a console and type
>
> cp ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/file.tar.gz /home/jimmy
> I know that this is nothing that the kde-project have to do with but.

I think the logical conclusion of KDE efforts is that one never should need=
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to pull up a console.

But anyway, Charles Samuels already implemented this using a preloaded=20
library.  So KDE's fine even if you want a console.

> shoud not dcopd be a global in kernel deamon?

It should not.  Try asking the FreeBSD kernel or Linux developers if you=20
don't believe it.  They would tell you that they already put means of IPC=20
into the kernel, and that you should use what's already there to go write=20
a userspace implementation of your convenient new interface.

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