[Nautilus-list] Re: Installation-time performerance preference

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Michael Rogers <banthafodder connectfree co uk> writes: 
> Perhaps this decision could be automated by running benchmarks at
> install time? X server performance (time to map a window, client-server
> round-trip time, colour depth and screen resolution); amount of RAM (can
> libgtop find this out?); CPU performance; filesystem performance in
> $HOME. Different versions of documentation could be installed to match
> the look and feel chosen by/for the user (eg if icons in menus have been
> switched off to save RAM, screenshots should not show icons in menus).
> 

Exactly, why not automatically determine that the computer is slow,
and automatically pick defaults? We can more look in /proc and get
more reliable info than asking the user anyhow...

Havoc