[Bug 194581] kdelibs4c2a is making trouble

[Pino Toscano]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194581


Pino Toscano <pino at kde.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID




--- Comment #1 from Pino Toscano <pino kde org>  2009-05-29 19:46:26 ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> Please let me explain: For example, there are 2 processes started (kded and
> kded4) which do the same. The old one is started through kdelibs4c2a , the
> other one through kdelibs5. This IMO is not necessary, isn't it?

This is necessary, as KDE 3 and KDE 4 services are totally independent, and
they general cannot interact anyway (different incompatible libraries,
different inter-process communication system, etc).

> The same is with the process kdeinit and kdeinit4, both do the same, but
> loading both needs unnecessary cpu power.

kdeinit and kdeinit4 stay idle if there's no work for them.

> The third thing, I discovered, is that a lot of processes (20 and more) named
> kio-httpd are started (each uses 4M of RAM), which seem caused of the described
> problem above.

Unrelated.

> So, as there are still lots of applications (amarok is one of them, kpowersave,
> and lots more) which still need kdelibs4c2a, it is a big problem, to change
> them all. Otherwise, users should not be forced to remove them, just because
> they want to use KDE-4!

I don't agree this is an big problem, or even some problem. 

> So, my idea is, to merge kdelibs5 and kdelibs4c2a, so you get ONE library for
> all, or , the other option might be, to eliminate all functions out of
> kdelibs4c2a, which are already done by kdelibs5.

This cannot be done, as (as said above) KDE 3 libraries and KDE 4 ones are
totally independent. You cannot make KDE 3 applications use KDE 4 libraries,
and vice versa, this is impossible to do.

The bottom line is: we designed to make KDE 3 applications runnable in a KDE 4
desktop and vice versa, so services for both _are_ needed.
More and more applications are getting ported to KDE 4, so over time you'll
have gradually less running KDE 3 applications.

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