On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 17:25:34 Ivan ÄukiÄ wrote: > Other than that, I don't see much of a purpose of activity > starting/stopping. (i don't use session stuff, memory usage was a > side-effect of the plasma's design to load all the activities in memory... > imo, it would be better to load on switch - will make it a bit slower, but > will improve the startup time).
there is an implication here: if there is a task driven by an item in one of the activities (e.g. a “check my stock portfolio and alert me when it hits a value” widget, or more mundane: a timer) then not loading the activity prevents this from happening. loading on switch also makes the system non-deterministic from the user’s POV unless we also *stop* activities when switching. this means loading time on *each* switch, and that kills fast switching. there has to be a solution here, but “don’t load running activities” isn’t it. -- Aaron J. Seigo _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
