Owen,
the problem with gtk+/cairo in a stable setting is that it has only seen testing and been designed for "hello world". You need to consider something bigger! Try putting 600-1000 pango layouts on the screen at once. GTK+ 2.6 is already not very snappy with that. Then make sure your X server is not local so you get to suffer the roundtrips also. I would like to hear from you that this has been considered and perhaps even tested. We still have not gotten anywhere near the screen update speed we had in the 1.2 days. Wearing my application developer hat, I would say that using GTK+ 2.8 for the next Gnome is crazy. It isn't right to enlist the unsuspecting users as guinea pigs just because you are having trouble getting people to test. The Cairo integration was done prematurely and now we suffer. Glib 2.8, on the other hand, fine. That's not a revolution. It might as well get renamed back to 2.6.whatever. And btw., we still are not near a state where the file chooser is acceptable. The "save-as" mode really stinks while the "open" mode is only marginally acceptable. See http://blogs.gnome.org/view/mortenw/2005/05/25/1 for example. Morten _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list