Cheers All, On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 11:05 +0200, Benoît Dejean wrote: <snip> > No. But VM-based languages are problematic. It's OK to run 1 or 2 VM on > your desktop for real applications. But i can't think about running 10 > VM. But even if deskbar-applet was written in C, if its memory usage was > 22MB, i would be against. The problem is high memory consumption. The > cause is the implementation. >
We are aware of memory- and startup issues, but you surely know that premature optimisation is a top-three killer in free software projects. We will work on these issues, but it's also granted that we can only optimise to a certain point since deskbar relies on a bunch of indexes. If you wan't on-the-fly querying on tons of different sources you will have to index some of them, load libs to read others, etc., and there's not much you can do about it. The question is "Do Gnome want a multi-backend find-as-you-type search bar?". If the answer is "yes", then it will come at a price no matter the implementation. But note that this "price" will only be paid if the user wants to. If the answer is "no", well, then users just wan't have fast versatile searches on a stock gnome install. Cheers Mikkel _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list