[Nautilus-list] Speedier selection for Nautilus

[Manuel Clos <llanero jazzfree com>]

Hi all,

I'm interested in working to fix this perfomance problem.

Can someone explain why EelCanvasRect was replaced by GnomeCanvasRE, and 
why GnomeCanvasRE does not only draw the parts that change?

Thanks.

Anders Carlsson wrote:

> On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 21:44, Darin Adler wrote:
>
> > But one optimization, which was in EelCanvasRect for 1.0, is to only draw
> > the parts that are changing, not the entire rectangle. The GnomeCanvasRect
> > in 1.0 wasn't smart enough to know that if you get wider, you only have to
> > draw the new part.
> >
> > I think those smarts should be added to GnomeCanvasRect itself for
> > libgnomecanvas. But the code has changed enough hat it's not just a simple
> > matter of rolling in the EelCanvasRect code. Anders, is there a chance that
> > you can you look into this?
>
> OK, it looks like GnomeCanvasRE now inherits from GnomeCanvasShape which
> is basically just an SVP in the aa case. I'm not sure how this
> optimization could be possible using an SVP. Perhaps this is a
> raph-issue :)

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