On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Arjan J. Molenaar wrote:
> > > What about The GIMP? or GNUmeric? I expect them all to be show...
> >
> > Gimp, xpaint, soffice, xwp, ghostview, xv, konqueror, rational, ...
> >
> > No problem at all. We have the whole bandwidth of free and
> > open software
> > running and a few commercial packages, never had a problem,
> > we even can
> > run small mpeg videos. The slowest app is netscape, here it
> > takes about
> > 10-15s before it comes up (I think that's because of the loading or
> > searching of fonts from xfs) and it's slow when scrolling tables.
>
> DIA used to redraw the whole canvas, not just a part of it when you
> edit/move some item. I don't know if this is optimized by now (at least
> on version <0.86).
Excuse me? This code has been the same since the very first version of
Dia, and it has always handled dirty regions. Maybe not in the smartest
way (always the smallest containing rectangle), but still, it's not
redrawing the whole canvas.
/ Alex
