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

[Tomas Ogren <stric ing umu se>]

On 10 December, 1999 - Mike sent me these 1.4K bytes:

> > Pixmap themes are slow because the computer has to coninually do real-time
> > transformations to the pixmaps. For example, as the progress bar goes
> > up, the "progress-bar" pixmap is stretched to reflect this. Hence, themes
> > that consist of A LOT of pixmaps get really slow down your machine.
> 
> Is there any way to load them in as pixmaps and then transform them to a
> differnt kind of data once loaded?

It's not the format itself that's the problem.. it's the fact that it's
doing lots of "extra" work...

If you don't want it to do that extra work, don't use those themes...

/Tomas - author of Thinice...
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