> From: Davyd Madeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Rodney Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Desktop Development List <[email protected]>, > Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: control-center 2.13.90 released > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 08:58:22AM -0500, Rodney Dawes wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 12:49 +0000, Calum Benson wrote: > > > On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 13:52 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote: > > > > > > > I also feel that it looks odd and out of place (Why else would I click > > > > on a different image than to have it be my background?). It appears > > > > this was done because the change was too slow -- at least that's the > > > > valid reason I could find at > > > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327335. I'm with Federico > > > > though in thinking we should make it fast instead. > > > > > > And in the meantime, a bit of pointer feedback would probably relieve > > > any "why is nothing happening?" symptoms on the instant-apply front. > > > > The gnome-background-properties dialog has no idea how long it will > > actually take for the settings to take effect, as it does not control > > the actual drawing on the background. The gconf calls to set the keys > > succeed and return instantly, which means that changing the pointer in > > the capplet itself, based on that information, would be totally useless. > > A timeout would still be needed, to slow the UI down. > > At this stage in the game, I think we should look at doing three > things: > (1) reverting the UI change, it is a bandaid fix to a deeper > problem;
If the hope is to change it back when things get faster then this current change is inflicting unnecessary software churn on users. As I'm on older crappy hardware I guess I should sit out this release cycle entirely as an even slower Gnome would probably kill it. > (2) shipping GNOME 2.14 with gtk-engines 2.6, leaving people who > giving us more time to optimise gtk-engines/cairo/X I expect this would be unpopular with developers (especialy dobey). How many developers have really crappy hardware? (ie > 3 years old) -- Alan H. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
