On Friday, April 29, 2011 14:55:01 Markus Slopianka wrote: > Am Freitag 29 April 2011, 12:52:18 schrieb Lydia Pintscher: > > Aaditya applied for a Season of KDE slot. He wants to work on speed > > optimization. Do we have a nice project for him? > > Depends what he finds slow. > A possibility would be to either help the Platform modulation effort to cut > down dependencies (if helping hands are still needed there). > Another could be to reduce the number of dependencies that are loaded during > startup (if he finds startup slow). > A third possibility would be to utilize kdelibs-mobile for desktop use and > maybe work downstream in OBS to offer a SC based on kdelibs-mobile.
Profiles are not meant to be used that way. They're cutting out features that might already be on a given platform or don't make sense for mobile and embedded use cases at all, but these features are still needed by many applications. There is no magic silver bullet :) That said, I think startup performance would be a very nice project, with high impact. The way to go here would to use bootchart and a profiler to find out where most of the time is spent, and then making that code faster. Should be quite fun :) Cheers, -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9