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axion419

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Registered: 2007-04-12

Posts: 185

How hard would it be to convert K3b into GTK?

i set up these nice fast systems, only to have to install k3b because its the only program i have found that can burn mp3 discs, audio cds, as well as dvd's.  Is their a way to take the code, and make it gtk?  I imagine its tough since it hasnt been done.  just wondering if anyone knows of a project trying to do this?

Mandor

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Registered: 2006-06-06

Posts: 154

Re: How hard would it be to convert K3b into GTK?

What's the point? Even if it was possible, it would not make it faster, rather the opposite. QT is faster than GTK. The 'lightness' of application does not come only from the toolkit used.

To the point, I don't think that it is possible to directly port k3b from qt to gtk.

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T-Dawg

Forum Fellow

From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: How hard would it be to convert K3b into GTK?

Graveman usually works fine as a more simplistic replacement of k3b..
The sluggishness you may be experiencing with k3b is not the qt toolkit but rather the loading of kde libraries and engines. If its that much of a problem you could try preloading that kde stuff on your session. Not sure what the command for that would be, may kde_init or something like that.

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: How hard would it be to convert K3b into GTK?

Graveman usually works fine as a more simplistic replacement of k3b..
The sluggishness you may be experiencing with k3b is not the qt toolkit but rather the loading of kde libraries and engines. If its that much of a problem you could try preloading that kde stuff on your session. Not sure what the command for that would be, may kde_init or something like that.

The command is kdeinit. So just add

kdeinit &

in your ~/.xinitrc

schivmeister

Developer/TU

From: Singapore

Registered: 2007-05-17

Posts: 971

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Re: How hard would it be to convert K3b into GTK?

oh please, NOOOOO!!!

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I need real, proper pen and paper for this.

WiLLiE

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2005-02-27

Posts: 135

Re: How hard would it be to convert K3b into GTK?

oh please, NOOOOO!!!

Why? I personally think that would've been great (not that it will ever happen)
No need to load kde-bloat for one app. weeee

DonVla

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From: Bonn, Germany

Registered: 2007-06-07

Posts: 997

Re: How hard would it be to convert K3b into GTK?

oh please, NOOOOO!!!

Why? I personally think that would've been great (not that it will ever happen)
No need to load kde-bloat for one app. weeee

that´s what i also thought for some time.
here´s the answer:

vlad     18127  0.0  0.7  35624  7408 ?        Ss   Jan25   0:00 kdeinit Running...                                          
vlad     18133  0.0  0.8  35428  9276 ?        S    Jan25   0:00 klauncher [kdeinit] --new-startup                           
vlad     18135  0.0  1.2  37568 12788 ?        S    Jan25   0:02 kded --new-startup

it uses almost no ressources.

Last edited by DonVla (2008-01-26 04:01:21)