Re: Unidentified subject!

[Antonio Campos <acampos ceronet com>]

Kaz Kylheku wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Antonio Campos wrote:
>
> > we want to beat Windows or KDE... (By now Windows is quite smooth, and this
> > is something desktop users feel instantenously)...
>
> Last I checked, Windoze still doesn't let you move the window of an app that
> has stopped ``responding''. So we can safely say that it has a few unresolved
> problems. :)  The smoothness is thanks to advances in the fabrication of faster
> processors and graphics chipsets.
>
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Certainly we have beaten Windows in a lot a questions, but the smoothness of
Windows is not only due to the graphics chipset (it's an important factor
obviously). I think that Windows is not using GDI on a few applications. I think
is really using DirectDraw to write directly to video memory. If it is so, I don't
like this way of doing things, because DirectDraw is a focus of security problems
(no restrictions over who writes to video memory...).
Nevertheless, I expect GTK to include double buffered widget in future releases...