Re: [Evolution] Evolution 1.4.4 performance on KDE 3.1

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

from the backtrace, looks like you are using a pixbuf theme with GNOME
2.x - pixbuf themes are notorious for slowing down redraws (it's
rendering pixmaps everywhere). I suggest you use the gnome control
centre to set your theme to "Default" or "Raleigh" or something that is
more resource friendly.

Jeff

On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 11:15, Paul Hands wrote:
> Done - it should be attached.......
>
> Paul
>
>
> On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 16:12, Dan Winship wrote: 
> > Can someone who's seeing this bug try running evolution under gdb and
> > resizing the window, and then hit ^C in gdb while it's redrawing, type
> > "thread apply all bt", and mail the output here? That might give us some
> > idea of where it's getting tied up.
> >
> > Ideally, this would be with a snapshot build, since they have debugging
> > symbols.
> >
> > -- Dan
> >
> > On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 07:27, Paul Hands wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > Should I submit the following as a bug?
> > >
> > > I'm running evolution 1.4.4 (and also the latest snaps - no
> > > difference) on KDE 3.1 (various versions - 3.1.1, 3.1.3) on SuSE 8.2. 
> > > System is a 2Ghz IBM T30 laptop with 2G RAM, Radeon mobility graphics
> > > adaptor, XFree86-4.3.0-15.
> > >
> > > The graphics performance is awful.  
> > >
> > > Anything which causes a window redraw (without changing window sizes)
> > > takes around 8 seconds to complete.  That includes changing folders -
> > > something which happens a lot.  The redraw of the summary and preview
> > > panes takes the most time - the folder bar needs about 3 seconds to
> > > look complete.  
> > >
> > > If I resize the window (main or composer)  the redraw can take up to
> > > 30 seconds.  During that time, the mouse cursor is grabbed, and is
> > > restricted to a screen area which seems to be the old size of the
> > > window.
> > >
> > > If I switch into a gnome session (gnome 2.2 as supplied with the SuSE
> > > distro) instead of KDE, graphics performance is fine.
> > >
> > > I don't want to start a gnome versus KDE thread here - it serves no
> > > purpose.  However, I bet a lot of evolution users are on KDE as well,
> > > and therefore I'd like to know..............
> > >
> > > 1. Is it just me, or are other KDE users seeing this.  If so, what
> > > distro etc?
> > > 2. Is it restricted to Evolution, or are other gnome apps affected in
> > > the same way?  
> > >
> > > and of course,
> > >
> > > 3. Is it worth submitting a bug?
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Paul
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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
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