Re: gnome slow

[Kevin Miller <sar original net>]

On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Szabo, Balazs wrote:
> 
> >   I've found that  the gnome is slower than kde. It  is very interesting
> > for me,  becausewhen I  first met with  gtk, I found  that there  can be
> > written fast programs with it.
> 
> So use KDE or make GNOME quicker.  Or get over it.
> 
> >   Now I see that  the gnome panel needs a lot of  time to initialize the
> > applets and  the gnome control-center  needs a lot  of time to  load the
> > configuration panels (capplets), etc.
> 
> The current GNOME code has a lot of debugging stuff in it.  For a panel
> applet, some messges will probably have to go through half-a-dozen
> different layers, and if each of those is checking and sanitising data
> then things will get slow.
> 
> I've yet to find GNOME slower than KDE on my lowly K6-200..

I've only got a p133 and 64 megs of ram.. I find it only a little slowed
down at times, but for the most part its quicker than kde's panel and
such.  Especially considering all the debugging stuff that remains.

sar

> 
> Matthew.
> 
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