> 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.
Oops, sorry... I hadn't checked that (I know I did some rewrite for something like
that in DiaCanvas, but I can't remember exactly what it was...) I better update my
knowledge then ;-)
Arjan
> / Alex
>
>
