On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 17:49 -0400, Morten Welinder wrote: > the problem with gtk+/cairo in a stable setting is that it has only > seen testing and been designed for "hello world". You need to consider > something bigger! Thanks for telling me how I designed the gtk+/cairo integration, I had no idea. > Try putting 600-1000 pango layouts on the screen at once. GTK+ 2.6 is > already not very snappy with that. Then make sure your X server is > not local so you get to suffer the roundtrips also. I would like to > hear from you that this has been considered and perhaps even tested. > We still have not gotten anywhere near the screen update speed we had > in the 1.2 days. Rendering speed is 90% an X server issue. For non-local servers without Render, Cairo will allow us to eliminate the round-trips... a huge win. > Wearing my application developer hat, I would say that using GTK+ 2.8 > for the next Gnome is crazy. It isn't right to enlist the unsuspecting > users as guinea pigs just because you are having trouble getting people > to test. The Cairo integration was done prematurely and now we suffer. We love you too, Morten. Best regards, Owen
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part