Re: clock applet "fix"
- From: Marius Andreiana <mandreiana rdslink ro>
- To: James Willcox <jwillcox gnome org>
- Cc: desktop-devel <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: clock applet "fix"
- Date: 25 Jul 2003 01:14:22 +0300
James,
Here are the reasons I'm against your patch, perhaps not all of them are
right:
* concept
As I understood, the clock applet becomes more independend from the
panel. If either crashes/hangs, the other will keep going.
The clock never crashed on me since I use gnome ( starting with 1.0 ).
Also, if an applet crashes, I get a gnome dialog saying it died
unexpectedly, should I add it back to panel? ( _this_ is a good solution
).
Panel hangs - it shouldn't. Panel it's a very important component of
gnome desktop. Let's fix that instead of trying to make pieces of gnome
work without the panel.
* more code / memory use.
I'm also a developer and i love having as little code as possibile. More
code = more time maintaining it, more possibilities to get errors. While
this patch adds only a few lines of code, it's good without them too.
Memory - hp said about 700k. Even 1k extra it's not acceptable. Lots of
1k hacks results in megabytes.
I'm also selling Linux to companies desktops and I often get complaints
it loads much slower than MS Windows and that it consumes more memory.
Every piece of memory saved it's welcome.
--
Marius Andreiana
Soluţii informatice bazate pe Linux / Linux-based IT solutions
www.galuna.ro
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