Re: [gtk-list] Re: X and idles => incredible slowdowns

[Antonio Campos <acampos extremadura com>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> Antonio Campos <acampos@extremadura.com> writes:
> >   gtk_widget_set_usize(GTK_WIDGET(data),(gint) size,(gint) size);
> >   gtk_widget_set_uposition(GTK_WIDGET(data),
> >       (gint) (400+100*cos(angle)),
> >       (gint) (300+100*sin(angle)));
> >
>
> With X, this is going to involve your app, your X server, and the
> window manager for every change in window position. That means three
> processes trying to load CPU 100%. Which is going to make things
> pretty slow and unresponsive.
>
> Just don't write broken applications! Problem solved.
>
> Havoc
>
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Sorry, but this answer doesn't satisfy me. Windows does it right, why
shouldn't Linux?