RE: Drawing Speed & new gtk-pixbuf

["Poletti, Don" <don poletti comverse-in com>]

Hurray,

I thought my pleas were falling on deaf ears.

Any time frame, like soon or not until 2.0?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: u07ih@abdn.ac.uk [mailto:u07ih@abdn.ac.uk]
> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 11:36 AM
> To: don.poletti@comverse-in.com
> Cc: gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: Drawing Speed & new gtk-pixbuf
> 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 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
>