Re: client side windows - request for testing and reviewing

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 17:07 +0200, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> 2009/6/17 Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>:
> <SNIP>
> > So, please, please, please, test this code. We need people who run
> > "uncommon" apps to test it, and we need people to run it on apps they
> > know really well so we can find minor changes in behaviour.
> 
> Here are some usage observations. I'll hopefully get time to play
> with/look at the API in the weekend.
> 
> I've been playing around with Baobab, Evolution, GIMP, Evince, Gnome
> Terminal, and Gnome Do. As far as my playing around goes they all
> seemed to behave like they use to.
> 
> Performance wise the absolute clearest win was when resizing the
> treeview rows in evolution. On "old" Gtk+ it is a major
> d-dr-d-dra-drag, while as with client-side-windows power is is
> completely smooth. Subjectively there seemed to be a small win in
> scrolling with high zoom levels in Evince, but not quite as clear as
> the treeview row resizing. Reflowing the layout in the Gimp toolbox
> (by feverishly resizing the window) did not change visibly, but that's
> probably because the major bottleneck is the reflow, not the redraw.

Note that I don't really expect there to be much of a performance
difference in general, except in the case of doing multiple scrolls or
subwindow moves immediately after each other (with no expose inbetween).

However, I expect a lot less flickering on non-compositing window
managers.

Here are some examples of minor issues that have been found:
http://tbzatek.fedorapeople.org/csw/