Re: [Evolution] Watch out for the new editor changes!

[Miles Lane <miles megapathdsl net>]

On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 23:55, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Radek Doulik has been doing a lot of great work on the GtkHTML editor in
> the past week, speeding it up considerably.  (Thanks Radek!)
>
>   Unfortunately, this also means that new code paths might have been
> introduced, and consequently that new bugs might have crept in.
>
>   Since we are very near to the planned total-mega-master freeze, I'd
> like to ask the bravest among Evolution users to update their snapshots
> (the ones that will be available in a few hours), and start playing with
> the new composer, reporting their impressions to the list and bugs to
> the Bugzilla.  The sooner we get bug reports about the composer, the
> better the quality of the composer that we'll ship with 1.0 will be.
>
>   BTW, It works great so far for me -- except that it's much, much
> faster.  :-)  It's definitely worth a try.

Ettore, try creating a very long line that does contain white space but
that line wraps ~40 times.  Now, set the message format type to HTML.
First, try scrolling.  On my machine I notice significant lag in
rendering the text and the scrolling pauses sometimes.  Also, if I place
my cursor near the beginning of this long wrapped line and start typing,
I notice a very long delay between rendering of each character.
I have a 32MB GeForce 256 DDR in an 800MHz Athlon machine with 128MB
of RAM, so this is not a slow machine.

        Miles