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

[Raul Dias <chaos swi com br>]

>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.

I have seen this happen since gnome's pre-1.0 days.
I have seen this happen to Gedit, gnotepad and a few other apps.
I am writting a GTK app (not gnome) and this happen too.
So, IMO it is not related to gnome, but too Gtk, more specificly to Gtk_text widget.

This happens randomically. I would guess it happens about 15% ~25%  of the times I use 
this kind of app.

Note that _when_ this happen I watch gtop go from idle ~ 5%  to 100%  at every keystroke.

I have seen a entire row disapearing in Gedit, when you break a existing row in the middle.
If you highlight that line, it appears again.   It seens to be related to Gtk_Text, but I have seen
this just with Gedit.

>
>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.

I do use fancy themes some times.
I have switched to ThinIce as suggested to be one of the cleanet themes, 
but this happen again.

I have seen this happen with:
Enlightenment DR 15 and DR 16
Window Maker
KDE 1.1

XFree 3.3.2 to 3.3.5



>
>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.

Ok, 
This is a PII 300 with 128MB,
the MB is an ASUS P2B
I am running Conectiva Linux 4.0 (it is basicly a RH 6.1 internationalized)
Enlightenment DR 16.02
Gt+ 1.2.6
gnome october.
Xemacs 21.1.4 
Netscape 4.7 with Fortify
Mozilla M12
some gnomw apps
some times VMware1.1.2
some times StarOffice 5.1a
and I don't know if this matters, but my home is a NFS export from another machine.

Hope this helps,

	--Raul Dias