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Re: Konqueror Gets Text-to-Speech Synthesis
by dingodonkey on Monday 16/Jul/2001, @13:35

I hope features like this are not included by default. It would only make Konqueror bloated with features 99% of people using it would never use. I've seen that happen to great programs before, would hate to see it happen to Konqueror.

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Re: Konqueror Gets Text-to-Speech Synthesis
by John on Monday 16/Jul/2001, @14:10

It's a plugin, which means that if you don't use it, it doesn't get loaded. konqueror's default size remains unchanged and bloat free.

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Re: Konqueror Gets Text-to-Speech Synthesis
by A Sad Person on Monday 16/Jul/2001, @18:12

Also, the actual .cpp file is only about 150 lines long - and that's with the identation style that has brackets on separate lines, tons of whitespace, comments, etc. Also, some code is duplicated between the "Speak Selected"/"Speak All" code. So, fully optimized binaries are going to be tiny.
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On another note, I must note that my jaw dropped when I saw how simple the code is. I always heard about how easy-to-use and powerful the KDE framework is, but this makes me thing that such descriptions are an understament. The KProcIO class seems particularly nice - doing standard fork/dup/exec thing is extremely ugly.
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So, I must thank the KDE Developers not only for a great desktop environment, but for providing a great programming environment, which means we may be seeing more great apps soon.

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