Re: control-center 2.13.90 released

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 12:04 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:

Has anyone figured these out? :)

> - how long do we take to load the image from disk and decode it.  For a
> 1400x1050 JPEG, this takes 0.27 seconds for me from looking at strace.
> 
> - how long do we take to generate the pixmap we set on the root window,
> based on the decoded pixbuf.  No idea how long that takes.  Test the
> various cases:  this is the cross product of { solid image, image with
> alpha} x { solid color, gradient } x { tiled/untiled image covers the
> background completely, background shows through }.  libbackground has
> some fancy code to detect the various coverage conditions; ensure that
> that code is working correctly.
> 
> - how long does nautilus take to pick up the pixmap and repaint its
> desktop window.  That takes about 1 second for me, due to XRENDER bugs.

This last one should be better on Radeon cards if you cvs update your
GTK+.  I put a workaround for the relevant Cairo/XRENDER bugs.

  Federico