Re: Drawing Speed & new gtk-pixbuf

[u07ih abdn ac uk]

> 
> 
> The release notes of gtk-pixbuf 0.5 says scaling is and I quote "obsencely
> fast" it
> also takes advantage of MMX if availible. Since pixmap gtk themes are a dog
> is there
> any chance or plans to have the theme engine use the pixbuf widget and would
> this give us better performance.

Someone, (Owen Taylor, I think) is writing the pixmap theme to use GdkPixbuf
instead of imlib.

> 
> Furthermore I know I've said this before but I really think there is
> something
> wrong with the pixmap theme drawing speed, well not wrong but its needs 
> improvement.

Yes, it redraws the same area 3 times over or something like that every on every
update. Thats why it's slow. but it is being worked on.

iain