Re: Kuickshow replacement in KDE 4.2.2

[Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>]

Benjamí Villoslada wrote, on 13/04/09 23:53:
> On Dilluns 13 Abril 2009 13:43:04 Alejandro Exojo wrote:
> > Have you checked if is still possible to have it installed? I have a mixed
> > 3.5/4.2 environment, and I found no conflict that forced me to remove it.
>
> $ apt-cache policy kuickshow
> kuickshow:
>   Installed: (none)
>   Candidate: (none)
>   Version table:
>      4:3.5.9-3 0
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> $ grep -i kuickshow /var/log/aptitude
> [Suprimeix, no utilitzat] kuickshow
> (KDE 3.5 to KDE 4 upgrade)
> [Instal·la] kuickshow
> (manual install)
> [Suprimeix] kuickshow
> (dist-upgrade. kdebase-kio-plugins and kdeeject removed too)
>
> $ dpkg -l kuickshow
> rc kuickshow 4:3.5.9-3
>
> > > Is Gwenview the solution?
> > > http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=KDE+4+Application+Cleanup
> > IMHO, is not a equivalent replacement, Gwenview is a much bigger
> > application, but is an improvement over Gimp. Even Okular it's a possible
> > better alternative.
>
> Yes, is a bigger application. I try with Okular, thanks Alex :)

I found okular to be very heavy with file activity on start-up (see 
Debian bug #514542).

On comparison, they seem roughly equally light/heavy on start-up:

amarsh04@victoria:/victoriac$ time gwenview
gwenview(1512): Attempt to use QAction "edit_redo" with KXMLGUIFactory!
gwenview(1512): Attempt to use QAction "edit_undo" with KXMLGUIFactory!
kdeinit4: preparing to launch

real    0m29.099s
user    0m6.528s
sys     0m0.768s
amarsh04@victoria:/victoriac$ time okular
okular(1834): Attempt to use QAction "bookmark_action_0" with 
KXMLGUIFactory!

real    0m27.253s
user    0m5.364s
sys     0m1.456s
amarsh04@victoria:/victoriac$

I then compared the logs of running okular and gwenview under strace:

amarsh04@victoria:~$ grep open okular2.log|wc -l
498
amarsh04@victoria:~$ grep open gwenview2.log|wc -l
519
amarsh04@victoria:~$ grep stat64 okular2.log|wc -l
2538
amarsh04@victoria:~$ grep stat64 gwenview2.log|wc -l
3782
amarsh04@victoria:~$ grep stat64 okular2.log|sort -u|wc -l
656
amarsh04@victoria:~$ grep stat64 gwenview2.log|sort -u|wc -l
1208

This was for start-up, then selecting file, quit.

Is it just me or are the numbers of calls to stat64 excessive?

Arthur.