[maemo-developers] python2.5 - unnecessary multiple processes forked

From: Kalle Valo kalle.valo at nokia.com
Date: Wed Jan 2 10:03:45 EET 2008
"ext Frantisek Dufka" <dufkaf at seznam.cz> writes:

>>  I can't 
>> imagine any valid reason for gtk/hildon to fork more processes just to 
>> show a GUI dialog. Does anyone know?
>
> I'm not sure but think it is because of gnome-vfs. Don't know proper 
> terminology but maybe each vfs 'provider' in the dialog (like mmc, phone 
> etc.) starts new process or something like that.

I think you are correct. I heard that some gnome-vfs plugins, for
example UPnP, start their own thread (or something like that).

But I'm a network guy, I know jack about our UI. So I might be wrong
here.

-- 
Kalle Valo

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