gtk widget redraw...

[Antonio Campos <acampos ceronet com>]

GTK redraws a little slowly. Would it be nice if the containers (or the
parent widgets) got a pixmap
buffer for drawing the children into it, so that when the widget has to
redraw, it splash the final image
completely on the screen?.
This way, the number of redraw calls to the windowing system will reduce
to only draw the final image.
You don't have to call for the redraw every time a child widget is being
draw (which is one of the things
that slow down GTK, I think. Correct me if I am wrong, please.).

A last question:
Double buffered widgets could speed things up? I have heared some rumors
about new versions of
GTK having this feature. How can this speed things up?. I don't
understand why. I think that the
pixmap method described earlier could totally resolve the problem,
couldn't it?