RE: gtk+ and gtk-engines slow

[raster redhat com]

On 22 Jan, Fox, Kevin M scribbled:
->  I just tried it as well. It does speed up the computer significantly. :)
->  If the cache is so much faster, shouldn't it default to cache instead of
->  defaulting to no cache?

talk to miguel - he believes the cache is useless. I disagree - it is
why I implimented a cache. I have VERY good reasons for doing stuff
often - most of the time no-one realises until somehting else goes
wrong:(.

->  > -----Original Message-----
->  > From:	Richard Hult [SMTP:rhult@hem2.passagen.se]
->  > Sent:	Friday, January 22, 1999 8:56 PM
->  > To:	miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx
->  > Subject:	RE: gtk+ and gtk-engines slow
->  > 
->  > 
->  > > Can you put this in your ~/.gnome/Gnome file:
->  > > 
->  > > [Cache]
->  > > Disable_Imlib_Cache=0
->  > 
->  > I suppose you mean this one, right? (I tried that one you suggested but
->  > I couldn't notice any difference)
->  > 
->  > [UI_GnomeApp]
->  > Disable_Imlib_cache=false
->  > 
->  > At least that's the one I tried. The pixmap engine is now faster! And it
->  > probably makes sense to cache the pixmaps that is used all the time
->  > everywhere in all apps... So maybe the pixmap-engine  pixmaps should be
->  > cached even if the user doesn't want the actuall apps to cache their
->  > pixmaps.
->  > 
->  > It's still a bit slow to be usable though... And I'm pretty sure that
->  > it's been faster a while ago.
->  > 
->  > By the way, if the cache is disabled, you can easily see how
->  > inefficient the pixmap theme is. When resizing apps, the widgets get
->  > redrawn between 2 and 3 times.
->  > 
->  > Richard.
->  > 
->  > ps this is with all the newest stuff from cvs on a RH5.2, i386, P166 w/
->  > 96MB.
->  > 
->  > 
->  > 
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