Re: UI Review Suggestions - Preference Dialogs

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 09:11:10PM -0500, Sean Middleditch wrote: 
> The image previews *are* slow, even on my Athlon 1800+.  (Granted, they
> don't seem any slower on a PII 500 at work or a Duron 900 laptop.)  I
> don't understand why it takes so long for the previews to be generated,
> I would think them to be relatively simple and quick quick operations...
> If the previews could be sped up to be as fast as I imagine they can be,
> perhaps there wouldn't be such a need for alternatives.
> 

Note that scaling down in gdk-pixbuf is kind of butt slow. Alex had
some faster routines, I don't know if we're using them here.

Havoc