[gnome-love] Re: Canvas redraw priority

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 11:02:31PM +0200, ERDI Gergo wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, ERDI Gergo wrote:
>
> > The GNOME 1 version used GTK_PRIORITY_DEFAULT as the idle priority. With
> > GNOME 2, Glib's HIGH priority completely removes any smoothness (which is
> > to be expected since it blocks canvas redraws until the mouse's motion is
> > stopped), but even LOW isn't nearly as smooth as the GNOME 1 version was.
>
> Could I get even a negative response (as in, 'yes the 2.0 canvas is
> ass-slow compared to 1.4') here please? Wether we move to GNOME 2 or not
> is going to seriously affect the Guikachu roadmap.

The 2.0 canvas is bletcherously slow.  So slow I am contemplating a
switch to the simplified 'foocanvas' module.