--On Sun, May 17, 1998 7:28 am -0500 Hilarion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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.
I'm running on a P-133 at 1024x768x24bpp, and the desktops take about 20
seconds or so to load, and while they're loading my mouse locks...
The card is an S3 Virge DX 4MB, and the server is XF86_S3V.
With XF86_SVGA, it doesn't run at all :(
Jues
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