Re: control-center 2.13.90 released

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 10:49 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 10:14 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> > I think the first step is for someone to simply spend a little time
> > figuring out what is slow:
> > 
> >  - Gradients
> >  - Scaled images
> >  - Solid color backgrounds?
> > 
> > If we are scaling images *via Cairo* that is known to be slow with
> > older X servers; if investigation proves that actually is the problem,
> > it can be worked around.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that this is the same bug as
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4320
> 
> At Suse we have Stefan Dirsch looking into that particular bug.  This
> may help the capplet, but again, someone needs to profile the capplet to
> see what is going on.
> 
>   Federico

Profiling the capplet won't help at all. It's not actually doing any of
the drawing on the desktop. Someone needs to profile nautilus and/or the
gnome-settings-daemon processes. These are the places where the drawing
happens. Albeit much faster without nautilus running, it could probably
still stand to see a little bit of improvement. A quick test by quickly
changing some background images on my old Powerbook G3 (400 w/192 MB
RAM, on OS 10.2), showed that it still seemd a bit faster than we are,
even without nautilus managing the desktop.

-- dobey