Re: gtk+ and gtk-engines slow

[Marcus Brubaker <spoon elpaso net>]

I'm probably sticking my nose where it doesn't belong (it wouldn't be the
first time) but it's a shame to see the both of you, both exceptional
programmers that are obviously quite stubborn, fueding about something
like this.  I'm inclined to side with raster in that hosing the cache
arbitrarily in such a way is a bad idea, but the happy medium is to set a
*default* in a config file to turn Imlib caching on or off.  I think
defaulting it to on is a good idea and then those 486 users that can't
handle the cache can turn it off by hand until someone writes a capplet
(or modifies one) to do it in a pretty interface.  Lets stop bickering and
just get back to what we all love to do, hacking. :)

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

> On 23 Jan, Miguel de Icaza scribbled:
> ->  
> ->  > The solution is to leave caching on. miguel wanted it off by default.
> ->  > All my code I write for Imlib ASSUMES caching - its SO HANDY  it means
> ->  > having to write very little intelligent code since all the smarts are
> ->  > handled for me. imlib is a high-level Image loading and display library
> ->  > - not low level. :)
> ->  
> ->  In GNOME we do not assume that.  So, that logic that might make sense
> ->  in Englightment is turned off for us.
> ->  
> ->  See my previous post for a solution in the case of the gtk-engines setup.
> 
> I have reasons for caching - I designed the cache etc. for a very god
> reasona nd I make use of it in my code. App slike electic Eyes, E,
> gtk-pixmap theme etc. rely on it for performance reasons. overriding
> user preferences forcibly in gnome-libs is the most evil thing i've ever
> seen. all performance issues wiht imlib and gnome hencefore I will deny
> any responsability for. This is all on your head, not mine. I disagre
> with you on this and I have my reasons. I will let you bog gnome down if
> you want.
> 
> ->  Miguel.
> ->  
> ->  
> 
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Marcus Brubaker
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