Re: GNOME 2.11/2.12 targeting GTK+ 2.8 (ie cairo based)

[Jon K Hellan <hellan acm org>]

On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 14:39 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> 	If we're talking about performance/stability in the context of whether
> GNOME 2.12 should use GTK+ 2.8, we're effectively saying "I think the
> GTK+ team might ship a unstable or unacceptably slow 2.8.0 release;
> GNOME shouldn't commit to using GTK+ 2.8 yet". I would hope that we
> would have more confidence in the judgement of the GTK+ team than that.

Crashes and performance are very different types of problem. Crashes get
fixed once they can be reproduced. Fixing bad performance can take a
long time.

Well, I haven't tested gtk2.7 since just after Cairo got added, so I
can't tell whether there is a performance problem. Has anybody got
numbers?

Jon K�