On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 21:05 +0000, Thomas Wood wrote: > > I switched back from Clearlooks cairo version to the Mist theme: > > everything is nice and fast now. With cairo-clearlooks, clicking a > > cleared number in gnome-mines, I could follow the bombsquad clearing the > > field of known not-mine squares. With Mist, these fields get uncovered > > instantly. > > > > Actually, Mist is already using cairo, so your test only shows that Mist > is a faster theme than Clearlooks. This was hopefully already known, > since Mist is a lot simpler than Clearlooks. One of the biggest problems > for Clearlooks in terms of speed, is it's use of gradients, and that has > always been an issue whether it has used GDK or cairo. To get a > definitive answer, we need people to test is the difference between > using Clearlooks with cairo (gtk-engines 2.7.x) and with GDK > (gtk-engines 2.6.x). > > -Thomas
Actually, together with switching to Mist, I also switched back to the old GDK version of gtk-engines. I will try some tests with gtk-engines 2.7.x tomorrow to see if there's a noticable speed difference. For the clearlooks themes with cairo: having a card that does RENDER accelleration can speed up quite a lot. Switching from a Matrox G550 to a Radeon 8500LE really shows good results for cairo. But I guess we should also think about those people who still have hardware that does not support render accelleration that much (I have X terminals with 4MB Matrox Millennium cards in them, they're terrible slow since the switch to GTK 2.8) _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
