Re: Bug reports for 0.99 RPMs

[Damien Miller <dmiller ilogic com au>]

On Thu, 17 Dec 1998 raster@redhat.com wrote:

> On 18 Dec, Damien Miller scribbled:
> ->  I just installed the 0.99.0-0 RPMs. 
> ->  
> ->  Nice work! I especially like the pager applet.
> ->  
> ->  Here are the bugs I have found so far:
> ->  
> ->  General:
> ->  
> ->  - All apps seem slower to update, the refresh logic seems to be less
> ->  efficient (relative to 0.30).
> ->  
> ->  - The pixmap theme is especially slower at refreshes.
> 
> what do you expect :) 

I should have said:

The pixmap theme is especially slower at refreshes, I could see
certain parts of windows getting re-displayed several times.

> ->  Panel:
> ->  
> ->  - Sliding the panel is slow (using the RPM version of enlightenment as
> ->  my wm)
> 
> thats because the panel is a normal WM client - thus when it slides it
> involves not just a trip to the Xserver but a trip to X, then a trip
> for X to the WM then a trip form the WM back to X - then back to the
> client again to get its synthetic configurenotify event. basically the
> problme is: the panle does nto slide at X pixels per second, but at X
> pixels per step - thus a slow machine will slide it slowly, a fast
> machine will do it quickly. The "optimal" solution is for the panel to
> time the time between moves and adjust its distance to "slide" each
> iteration according to how long the last one took.

Again, I should have been a bit more clear:

Sliding the panel is slow compared to GNOME 0.30 on icewm.

Regards,
Damien Miller

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