On Fri, 23 May 2008, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Lee Jenkins wrote: > > > > Hmmm. That's a bit unfortunate. I get the idea of theming and > > centralizing the > > user feel, etc but that doesn't take into account task based applications. > > Exactly our issue as well. We have a GUI application designed for kids > and need it colourful. We also have a admin GUI application designed for > our franchises and needed custom (corporate) colours overall. We also > use colour for input validation forms. Most of these worked when we ran > under Windows, but not when it's run under Linux. Defeats the purpose of > cross platform apps. Our custom drawn toolkit solves all these issues. > > > I've noticed also that other things like MouseDown and MouseUp seem to act > > differently (kind of sluggish) in GTK1/2 or maybe its Gnome in general. > > That's > > a show stopper for me. > > Which components? LCL-GTK2 does feel slow compared to other non-LCL GTK2 > based applications. GTK1 (I've got the Lazarus IDE compiled with in) > seems okay. In view of all the double buffering, I'm not surprised that the GTK2 version works slow. Double buffering is evil (tm) unless you do moving graphics. Michael. _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
