Re: [gnome-love] is this list active?

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 15:10, Aaron Walker wrote:
> > I've been subscribed for about a week and haven't recieved any list
> > traffic at all.  Is this list active or am I just not recieving any of
> > the posts?

OK, now that we've established that the list is active, I have a
question.  I'm wondering, what are the plans for yelp?  I'm running
gnome 2.2 and I find yelp is really _far_ too slow to function as a
usable help system.  It's OK for trivial one-page help files, but when
I try to call up something substantial such as the gnumeric manual the
rendering takes ages (on a 2.2GHz Pentium 4).

The rendering of large documents is several orders of magnitude slower
than Mozilla or devhelp.  I suppose this is because yelp has a lot of
extra work to do, starting from an xml base rather than html -- if
that's the case I believe the basic design decision of starting from
raw xml needs to be reconsidered.

-- 
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC