On 17-May-98 Jules Bean playfully chanted:
| --On Sat, May 16, 1998 10:10 pm -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|
|> On 17 May, Jules Bean shouted:
|> -> Looks very cool. Takes forever to display the pictures first time
| round
|> -> as you head up the v desktops, though...
|>
|> thats cause it loads and rendersw them then (the first time) and
|> whenevr thay have been unloaded and needed again :) so basicallyu they
|> will come upo AFTER E has created a bg for them.. :)
|
| Maybe worth considering loading them in the background (in a low priority
| thread). Perhaps just one each side of the current desktop..
|
| Maybe configurable, to conserve memory usage. Although pictures which have
| been loaded but not used are only consuming swap, not real memory, and I
| don't suppose that's so important for most people...
Raster's doing the right thing, I think. We don't want to use memory for
things that don't occur, because that will bog a lot of people's systems down,
and frankly, be unwanted for others who might need the memory later. Caching
everything for future use on bootstrap only saves you time ONCE and can affect
the performance for a great deal more.
Is it really that slow on your system? Consider reducing the amount of colours
or the resolution slightly in order to keep the same look without a lot of the
overhead, for some of the default backgrounds. Later on there will be themes
that are geared more towards certain groups of people. What you're seeing is
just how one theme influences your system and might not be indicative of a
systematic problem for all themes.
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with out objectivity?
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