Re: GNOME 2.11/2.12 targeting GTK+ 2.8 (ie cairo based)

[Diego Gonzalez <diego pemas net>]

On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 16:10 +0200, Jon K Hellan wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 14:39 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > 	If we're talking about performance/stability in the context of whether
> > GNOME 2.12 should use GTK+ 2.8, we're effectively saying "I think the
> > GTK+ team might ship a unstable or unacceptably slow 2.8.0 release;
> > GNOME shouldn't commit to using GTK+ 2.8 yet". I would hope that we
> > would have more confidence in the judgement of the GTK+ team than that.
>
> Crashes and performance are very different types of problem. Crashes get
> fixed once they can be reproduced. Fixing bad performance can take a
> long time.
>
> Well, I haven't tested gtk2.7 since just after Cairo got added, so I
> can't tell whether there is a performance problem. Has anybody got
> numbers?
I have tried it several times since the change to cairo, i'm using a PIII at 733Mhz (which i think is not too obsolete) and performance is a real problem, i had to revert to gtk2.6 because GTK+ head is very very slow.

> Jon Kåre
>
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