Re: Why are people sticking with GTK+ 26.? (Re: GTK+ modularization)

[Nicolas Setton <setton adacore com>]

Hello Carl & al,

> I'm personally interested in hearing more details about what your
> motivation for sticking with 2.6 is. If it's performance concerns, (as
> is the case with others I've talked to), then I should point out that
> I'm personally very interested, and planning on fixing those
> performance problems.
>
> There's no good reason that GTK+ should have ever gotten slower. So
> I'll be working to fix performance regressions. But I need help
> identifying them. So anything anyone can share about things they have
> hit would be useful. (And thanks to those who have already started
> identifying things here on this list.)

It looks like cairo is very slow when rendering text on X displays  
which do not support the RENDER extension. Most Solaris X servers  
around today, for instance, fall in this category, and our  
applications are simply unusable with Gtk+-2.8, whereas they used to  
run smoothly with Gtk+-2.6.

Would it help if we assemble a testcase showing this?


Nicolas