Dolphin performance

2012-09-03 Thread Miguel Carvajal
Hi, I wonder why Dolphin is not integrated into the K desktop environment as a background running program that start when the workspaces starts like does Windows with the explorer program. It is a heavy application and it take a while to get opened once (this is an example) I launch it from the

Re: Dolphin performance

2012-09-03 Thread Tomaz Canabrava
2012/9/3 Miguel Carvajal : > Hi, > > I wonder why Dolphin is not integrated into the K desktop environment as a > background running program that start when the workspaces starts like does > Windows with the explorer program. Why should the program be opened while nobody's using it? The first time

Re: Dolphin performance

2012-09-03 Thread Thiago Macieira
On segunda-feira, 3 de setembro de 2012 12.44.42, Tomaz Canabrava wrote: > Why should the program be opened while nobody's using it? The first > time it is launched it will load some stuff to the memory, when it's > launched again some of the memory will remain in the cache, so it will > load faste

Re: Dolphin performance

2012-09-03 Thread Loïc Grobol
On Monday 2012-September-03 Tomaz Canabrava wrote : > Why should the program be opened while nobody's using it? To improve the opening time, it is not that uncommon. > The first time it is launched it will load some stuff to the memory, when it's > launched again some of the memory will remain in t

Re: Dolphin performance

2012-09-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/09/12 18:59, Loïc Grobol wrote: On Monday 2012-September-03 Tomaz Canabrava wrote : Why should the program be opened while nobody's using it? To improve the opening time, it is not that uncommon. The first time it is launched it will load some stuff to the memory, when it's launched ag

Re: Dolphin performance

2012-09-03 Thread Loïc Grobol
On Monday 2012-September-03 Nikos Chantziaras wrote : > Something is seriously wrong there. It should never take 15s to open > Dolphin. Even on the oldest machines I tried (a Celeron 2.4Ghz, a > machine that's a decade old) Dolphin starts up in under 2 seconds. > > Are you RAM limited? If you'r

Re: Dolphin performance

2012-09-03 Thread Thomas Lübking
2012/9/3, Loïc Grobol : > (Kate, Dolphin, maybe KMail/Kontact) should default to higher priorities. > you cannot simply lower niceness < 0, requires suid the sane strategy is to nice heavy load background tasks this would also much likely not be covered by a preloaded dolphin, just creating a new

call for presentations: Qt Developer Conference

2012-09-03 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Heya folks :) The call for presentations for this year's Qt Developer Conference is published. It is important to have KDE represented there in the talk program. If you have something interesting to talk about please do submit something. The deadline is September 23rd. If you need feedback on your