Hi,
On 2008-11-24 08:58:17 +0100 Philippe Roussel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Nice to see there is another user. FOr me, besides, GTK2 is slow too.
Cairo and Art are going to be slow. No work around. Try the faithful
xlib
backend, which I use regularly. It will be faster, since instead of
shuffling bitmaps, it lets the server do the work, like font drawing.
Well, I just make a quick test and xlib backend is really slow two,
maybe even slower than art, to display any widget. Are you using X
over
ssh or just exporting your display ? Not that it should change
anything
but...
For me, gtk2 applications are quite usable.
I don't know what to tell you: for me it is very fine. I use regularly
X11 export to access my various machines. Except for my laptop I do
not use art but xlib. I think the speed is quite good, I can use
GNUMail without problems. ProjectCenter, Ink... everything reasonably
fine. Just applications that scroll are a pit a pain (like using
PRICE).
I also use it over 10Mbit ethernet without significant decrease.
Wireless will be worse due to the latency.
I never liked GTK2, one of the reasons being its slow display export
(and also buggyness when it comes to endianness and different displays
during export).
I usually export by setting the display, thus I have different font
caches and it is a tad faster, but export over SSH is pretty similar
in terms of speed.
I can even use GWorkspace, but you need to disable the desktop and the
Tabbed Shelf.
One thing will be awful though: scrolling. I think GNUstep is quite
inefficient there, it makes a LOT of X11 calls, art is less affected
when
it uses xshm. On a slower machine you will see that X11 can
sometimeseat up
to 50% of your CPU for some operations..
That could be indeed. When running on a 120Mhz PPC, I observed once
that Xfree was taking up to 60% of the cpu compared to the app
itself... everything for a quite bad performance.
Riccardo
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