Icons in bonobo-activation server files ...

[Michael Meeks <michael peabody ximian com>]

Hi Guys,

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Alex Larsson wrote:
> >     There's some *serious* power in bonobo-activation :-)

        And much of it is totaly unneccesary IMHO.

        I would _very_ seriously caution against putting icons in the
server files; the reason for this is quite simple.

        Currently if you turn on ORBit2 method trace debugging;
ORBit2/src/orb/orb-core/orbit-debug.h - and then start eg. Nautilus - you
will see it does a simple query on the registry - and an absolute mountain
of totaly redundant data comes back;

        Every translatable string for each locale gets pushed across the
wire - every attribute you stick in the server file gets pushed whenever a
query hits that entry;

        Thus the whole system tends to slow and grind to a halt - not to
mention that however it's stringified bonobo-activation-server has to
store the thing in memory that is poked a lot - currently RSS - SHARE for
oafd == ~1Mb on a 1.4 machine - lets not make that any worse.

        Regards,

                Michael.

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