Bug 332339

Summary: Allow to preload any program to improve their startup speed
Product: [I don't know] kde Reporter: Moviuro <moviuro+kde>
Component: generalAssignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: cfeck, nate, notuxius
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: All   
URL: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=88390
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Description Moviuro 2014-03-19 22:52:42 UTC 
I use konqueror and noticed the 'preload instance' option. It greatly improve its launch speed and if you haven't tested it yet, you should.

The idea is to port this functionality to any other program (be it a KDE app or not). Among the most heavily used, I think Konsole, Dolphin, Kate/Kwrite would greatly benefit of it.

I also chose to write it in the autostart wishlist, since, from what is written on the forum, it looks like the most meaningful place to write about it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Steps to have in the end
1. Add a program to the 'preload' list
2. Launch it and enjoy the very very quick startup



Konsole already has a kind of 'preloaded window' but there is only one. Also, opening a new konsole is fast, but the shell can take ages to appear: with a really preloaded window (if these terms make any sense), it should just appear with a prompt ready to recieve some text.
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2014-03-26 21:22:12 UTC 
Not sure how Konqueror does it, because it has to be integrated in the kdeinit system somehow, but other applications could indeed benefit from the same feature.

I would suggest to report this wish it for each application separately, because it cannot be solved outside of the application.
Comment 2 Alexander Mentyu 2018-03-26 15:27:27 UTC 
Related issue https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257539
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2020-09-29 04:22:04 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 257539 ***