On 2/9/06, Shaun McCance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 10:58 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: > > On Thu, February 9, 2006 10:41, Davyd Madeley wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 09:10:55AM +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: > > > > > >> + gtk-engines: I quickly looked at the archives and couldn't find a > > >> mail related to it (ie there's no mail with engines in the > > >> subject ;-)). Is the issue a possible slowdown caused by the use of > > >> cairo? > > > > > > We have two issues here: > > > (a) speed issues caused by Cairo; and > > > (b) changes in the default theme (which while may be popular are > > > also unpopular with others) > > > > Isn't be an "issue" in the theme (and not the engine)? > > Well, the new Clearlooks entails both the Cairo-enabled > Clearlooks engine in gtk-engines and the Clearlooks theme > data in gnome-themes. Both the engine and the theme data > have changed. The theme data is probably setting a few > things that are new to the engine, but most notably, it's > using a brigher and more saturated set of colors. > > Both the engine and the theme data are responsible for > point (b). The engine is responsible for point (a). >
Until somebody sits down and does measurements to show that use of cairo in theme engines is responsible for measurable slowdowns, this is just guesswork. Matthias _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
