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

[Steve Fox <drfickle pcxtreme org>]

I have to agree with Andy. I have a P3-450 with 128MB of memory and I
even noticed a huge performance increase when switching back to the
default theme from the minEguE theme (too bad the default isn't as
purdy).

Andy Kahn wrote:
> As the author of gnotepad, I can safely say that any slowness you are
> experiencing with gnotepad's typing speed is **NOT** due to your
> hardware.  I develop and test the code using a machine that's over 2
> years old, and do not experience the slowness as recently described.
> 
> The more likely cause is the software configuration.  The most common
> cause is that people are using a relatively "fancy" theme with
> GTK/GNOME and/or their window manager.
> 
> My suggestion is this: try turning OFF themes.  That is, don't use
> any.  Does the performance get better?  If it does, there's your
> culprit.  If it does not, I'd like to hear a detailed description of
> all the software you are running that makes up your desktop
> environment.
> 
> regards,
> --andy

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