Re: Drawing Speed & new gtk-pixbuf

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

> wrong with the pixmap theme drawing speed, well not wrong but its needs 
> improvement. I think the latest posting was from someone with a 500MHz
> machine and it wasn't doing anything else. Games recalculate textures on
> the fly and manage to do many frames a sec so why can't gtk pixmap themes.
> I know that I'm comparing apple to oranges but with today's hardware lags
> in drawing speed make people think either poorly written code or a bug. Even
> if hte underlying problem is hard to solve.
> 
> I really think this is an area of improvement that gnome would benefit from
> because
> right now the answer is "Yea they look great but don't use em". 

What would be nice is if it could use your 3D card for rendering if it
exists.  Especially when you have stuff like ATI Rage and nVidia's GPU
concept.  Thats horsepower going unused!

	sri