On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Riccardo Mottola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > >
Wondering whether disabling the backing store might help improve the drawing speed... currently don't have a machine to try it out though. Cheers, -Krishna -- Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogical, with just a little bit more effort? - Aksel Peter Jorgensen _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
