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Re: Embedding external parts into KDE
by Karl-Heinz Zimmer on Saturday 23/Dec/2000, @11:17

On Friday December 22, 2000, Jebediah Smith wrote:

> While this certainly shows off KParts' well-designed architecture,
> I'm unsure if this would be practical.

> When loading a Bonobo component, you would have all the
> overhead of Bonobo (oafd, ORBit, etc) along with KParts' overhead.
> How would this effect performance?

Jebediah, please don't get me wrong, but this does not sound very dramatically to me.
The KParts component model was designed to be effective and easy to implement while at the same time working really FAST.

There is not very much in looking for 'overhead of KParts' - trust me: the time consumed by KParts can be ignored when you have to deal with something that time-consuming as CORBA.

I do *not* intend to start a flame-war against CORBA but I thought it might be good to mention that this possibility of embedding external parts into KDE is a great thing: Just be happy and forget about the *tiny* amount of overhead that might be caused by using the KParts model.

Karl-Heinz

http://home.snafu.de/khz/

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Re: Embedding external parts into KDE
by Jebediah Smith on Saturday 23/Dec/2000, @13:09

You're certainly right. The point of the post was that embedding Bonobo comonents as a KPart would require that oafd, ORBit, et al., be loaded. The added overhead isn't coming from KParts - It's coming from Bonobo.

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