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

[bob cs csoft net]

Hmm. your right. I have seen that disapearing bug in gnotepad also. I
thaught it was a bug in gnotepad, but I guess it must be gtk related.

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Raul Dias 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.
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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