[kubuntu-devel] work item style

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tuesday, February 28, 2012 01:15:15 PM Harald Sitter wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:34 AM, pansz <pan.shizhu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Jonathan Riddell <jriddell at ubuntu.com> 
wrote:
> >>> Random guesses on what the items *could* be:
> >>> [kubuntu-members] Check if disabling krunner has considerable impact
> >>> on memory/log in time, iff so discuss and disable it
> >> 
> >> This comes from discussion at UDS where we weren't sure why you had
> >> disabled krunner on kubuntu netbook.  If it does save significant
> >> login time that's all good.
> > 
> > We could probably try disable several plugins of krunner instead of
> > disable krunner completely (krunner by default load much more plugins
> > than usually required). Krunner is very important for user experience
> > and IMO it should be enabled at all cost.
> 
> Actually I believe the rationale was that the S&L acitivity already
> provides the runner features through the search part so we did not
> decativate the features and experience delievered by KRunner but one
> of the UIs through which it does (krunner technically is a library
> that is part of libplasma IIRC). Scott knows more about why it was
> removed from autostart though.

This is correct.  I recall someone saying there were issues if both U/I's were 
active, but I don't recall that ever actually being demonstrated.

Scott K