GNOME has lost its way
Posted May 24, 2004 17:32 UTC (Mon) by
oak (guest, #2786)
In reply to:
GNOME has lost its way by Alan_Hicks
Parent article:
The Spatial Way
In addition to i18n support (which I feel could be a bit less convoluted
now that people actually know what's required of it), I think another
thing making Gnome slower is double buffering of drawing in Gtk2. Gnome1
with Gtk1 had that flickery, unprofessional feeling way of drawing
graphics. Double buffering fixed that, but it's a bit slower.
Btw. I'm hoping that once fd.o X server and composite is everywhere, and
they have a mechanism with which application can tell X server / composite
manager that screen shouldn't be updated while toolkit is still drawing
something, Gtk toolkit will use fd.o X server double buffers instead of
it's own. That way Gtk with fd.o X server could be about as fast as with
normal X server. Transparent windows would still be a bit slower, but at
least then normal windows wouldn't be slower than with normal X...
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