KDE/kdevplatform/shell

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Friday 07 November 2008, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 07.11.08 18:33:51, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
...
> > Would it make sense to have a maximum number of files remembered as open
> > ? E.g. if I exit with 60 open files only the 50 most recently used files
> > are opened again ?
> > Maybe indeed this is just more like a history function, and when starting
> > kdevelop only one file has actually to be opened and all others are
> > loaded on demand (easier if there are no tabs ;-) ).
>
> Well, loading on demand means switching to another file might be pretty
> slow. 

What do you think how slow would this be ? It would be just for the first 
switch. Do you think this would be more than let's say 0.5 seconds on e.g. a 
5 year old 2 GHz machine ?

...
> That might indeed be a good idea. But I guess you didn't yet look at
> kdevelop4, right? 

Actually I don't do anything else than just compiling stuff ... (nut sure 
which smiley to put here)

Alex