|  | | Re: SPEED problem
Jan 5 2005 on poll What's missing in KDE3 beta1? |
three years later and this is still an issue... hrm. I'm running icewm as the window manager and using konqueror as the file manager and web browser. much faster. desktop boots up in about one second on my 400 mHz laptop. konqueror would take about 40 seconds to launch a "preloaded instance" when KDE was the desktop, but when running icewm it takes about 15 straight off the disk. not good, but not bad either. It's still a significant improvement over "preloading" to just dump the kde window manager, and there's no loss in functionality, at least for what I do. All those kdeinits make looking at the process list confusing anyway.
since 15 seconds is still too slow for me I wrote a one-line script that uses DCOP to tell konqueror to open a new window using the currently running process, and plunked that on the desktop. bam! google displays in three seconds.
"dcop $(dcop konqueror* | head -1) KonquerorIface openBrowserWindow http://www.google.com/"
that should all be on one line, without the quotes.
paste that line in a text file ~/Desktop/google.sh
then, "chmod o+x ~/Desktop/google.sh"
Now, if I could only figure out how to do that with an arbitrary file on the desktop, say if I wanted to look at a .jpg on the desktop without waiting 15 seconds to load konqueror. It's currently an order of magnitude faster to hit ctrl-N in konqueror and drag the file into the new window than to just double click the icon, but that takes too much mental effort to be a useful way to do things.
I wonder why kdesktop exists at all. I would just draw icons on the desktop in a fullscreen konqueror window that has a funny focus policy. kdesktop isn't much use anyway without the rest of KDE installed. |
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