Dave McGuire wrote:
On Jul 24, 2005, at 8:09 PM, Jakub Piotr Cłapa wrote:
...is slow, as I expected.
Its somewhat disappointing to see usability take a second place to
eye candy.
I suspect it wouldn't be noticeable on a faster machine but I'd
rather not have needless software "enhancements" dictate when I buy
new hardware.
And I couyld say that I don't like to sacrifice my sight (reading core
X11 fonts is really a big pain for me) because of some really too old
hardware. Also I really didn't like PCB until it was GTK+2 because it
visually sucked.
So...the software has been needlessly bloated by incompetent
developers (the GTK people...not Bill or the PCB guys) and you advocate
buying new hardware to compensate for it? I'm not sure whether to feel
nausea or astonishment, but I'm sure one of the two are appropriate.
I wouldn't call UTF-8 support a needless bloat. Pango support for
different kinds of text (ltr and rtl), fonts and GTK+2 input metods were
all necessary and I think they are very guilty for the speed problems.
The thing to blame is that nobody really knows why GTK+2 (and Qt because
it is bloated too, maybe a little less) are so slow. Nobody knows why
Blender starts up almost instantially and GTK+2 takes almost forever to
load. The good news is that there are people who want to improve the
whole mess and profile the whole thing to make it run reasonably. :-)
PS. Sorry for that flame I almost started...
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Regards,
Jakub Piotr Cłapa
