Re: gnomepad is too slow (thread of Milestones document)

[Raul Dias <chaos swi com br>]

>
>>> 2)I launched gnomepad+ with nothing else running it could not keep up
>with 
>>> my typing its was 5-10 characters behind. I'm pretty sure I was not
>memory
>>> limited
>>> in this case.
>
>>        There are a couple of other applications that act this way
>> also, spruce (the "simple" e-mail client) being one of them. I assume
>> it's a property of whatever widget they're using for editable text.
>> It's horrendously slow, even on a 300MHz PII.
>
>Since at least one other person has seen this too I think this should
>be reported as a bug. Anyone care to point me where to do it? Anyone
>think its not a bug?
>

Well,

I have seen this happen too. In Gedit and other apps.
I wrote a gtk app, and this happen (regardless of the theme being used).
And the CPU is not busy either.

	-Raul Dias