Re: SV: [Nautilus-list] Desktop window

[Mathieu Lacage <mathieu eazel com>]

Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu> writes:

> > 2) It avoids having to create a bunch of shaped windows, one for each
> >    desktop icon. Doing this is bad for performance.
> 
> I don't think this can be claimed because the net effect of the Nautilus
> approach is *lower* performance. The reason many people complain is that
> having Nautilus manage the desktop results in horkedness moving windows.
> So much so that a few people around here aren't willing to run it. While
> there may be a theoretical load the X-server from using lots of little
> shaped windows, it seems to perform better on the whole than our current
> approach.

redrawing the desktop has visual glitches if you enable antialiased mode.
The non-antialised version of teh desktop window is as fast on my machine as
the default root window redrawing. Thanks to Mike's crazy optimizations :)

Mathieu

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Mathieu Lacage <mathieu eazel com>