RE: gtk+ and gtk-engines slow

[bratsche dfw net]

Don't worry Raster. We appreciate your work. =)

On Sat, 23 Jan 1999 raster@redhat.com wrote:

> 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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