RE: Keep menus in memory

["Damon Brodie" <damonb winddance net>]

I would agree with this, I changed the setting on my Sparc 5 and the change
was dramatic to say the least.

Keep up the good work guys!

Damon



-----Original Message-----
From: Ben FrantzDale [mailto:frantb@rpi.edu]
Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 2:47 PM
To: gnome-list@gnome.org
Subject: Keep menus in memory


I was just reading the Havoc interview on /. and saw several people complain
about the speed of Gnome. I think the most obvious thing that makes things
seem slow is the menu drawing. As I recall menus are not kept in memory by
default, meaning that the menu must be drawn, icons, text and all, every
time someone clicks on the menu.

I would like to suggest that the default be for Gnome to keep menus in
memory. On my old P100 the menus were painfully slow with this option turned
off, even with the default theme, but they were quite fast, even with a full
pixmaped theme, with this feature turned on.

--Ben