Re: Keeping a factory around

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> Most factory processes exit after the last instance of the created objects
> is destroyed. Is there a way to ``ref the factory''? I'm thinking about
> such use cases of Bonobo-Media as the preview of music files in Nautilus:
> this would load and unload the factory everytime a new preview is
> requested (i.e. every time the user rests the pointer above a music
> file's icon), which could cause a longer delay before the playback can
> start.
> 


I'm planning a feature like this for OAF 2.0. It will include some
level of recently used factory caching by oafd itself, as well as
letting the user ref a factory.

More details when I return from linux.conf.au

  Maciej