Re: gtk+ and gtk-engines slow

[raster redhat com]

On 23 Jan, Miguel de Icaza scribbled:
->  
->  > anbd to be honest. the numebr of 486's + 16 Mb of ram that will run
->  > gnome compared to those on PII-300's is minimal - especialy considering
->  > tat machines get faster - if you D have a 486+16mb ram then reduce the
->  > settings yourself. GNOem shoudl NOt go overriding a users imlib prefs.
->  > ever.
->  
->  1,000,000 machines running Red Hat/GNOME (being deployed in Mexico as
->  we speak) are under Pentiums and not even half of them have 32 megs of
->  ram.

they have buckleys of runing gnome wihtotu hitting swap - gnome eats up
over 16mb before goign anywhere on a machine. 32mb is barely usable -
and this is not imlib's fault. 64Mb is the minimum id' recommend for
gnome so living in a dreamworld where oyu think gnome wil run ok on
486's wiht 16mb ram wont happen.

->  > GNOem shoudl NOt go overriding a users imlib prefs.
->  > ever.
->  
->  GNOME should not be forced into "We have got a Cray to run this" mode
->  that E does on its users.  Again, see my post on how to fix this in gtk-engines.

there are preferences - edit them. Unlike some I provide a way of
changing preferences. If you want gnome to run on your 486 then provide
a default setup for your 486's with 16Mb. 1,000,000 machines are sold
by the week in the USA - and those are PII-400's and faster. the <
pentium machines days are numbered. your example of 1million machines
in mexico is not an example of what the lions share of the PC market is.

and yet I provide cases for the PII-450 owners and the 486 owners toget
the best performance. You simply nuked performance for everyone except
486 owners. That is worse that anythying else.

->  Miguel.

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