Improving KDevelop startup times

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 01.05.09 23:17:01, Amilcar do Carmo Lucas wrote:
> On Friday 01 May 2009 16:02:50 you wrote:
> > first of all I want to congratulate you on the great work you have done
> > with KDevelop. I think this is the best IDE for Linux.
> >
> > I am currently writing my Bachelor thesis at the Jacobs University in
> > Bremen, Germany with a topic "Improving application startup time". As a
> > case study I am trying to make KDevelop start faster.
> >
> > Let me briefly explain my approach: the core idea is that in a bigger
> > application the user will not use most functionality in the first few
> > seconds after the program is started. Therefore it is possible to give
> > an impression of faster startup if the application displays the main
> > windows as soon as possible to allow interaction while additional
> > modules are still being loaded in the background.
> >
> > In the case of KDevelop I already have a working implmenentation of the
> > above concept. Modifying the code of version 3.5.4 is extremely easy and
> > involves only a very few lines:

I suggest to stop your efforts on KDevelop3, the codebase is dead and those
changes won't be merged. Please put your energy into KDevelop4.

Andreas
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