On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:11:39 -0400 Yaroslav Halchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> recently. BUT to get such responsive UI sacrifices had been made, thus > there is no X (I do not even want to touch GPL vs BSD/... issue here). actually to be more on topic - sacrificing x11 does not make a ui more responsive. you have a bad-responding ui in x11 if you simply design its nuts and bolts operations in such a way to trigger the slowest paths for x11. if you know your x11, you can make a perfectly responsive ui. you'd never know x11 was even there. the problem is that there is a lot of mis-use of it, and i need to defend x11 here as it is most certainly not the culprit. :) it's merely the messenger (eg if you upload/download pixmaps all the time... guess what - you are uploading and downloading data to/from video ram all the time, and this comes with the attendant consequences brought forth by the hardware). -- Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
