[Nautilus-list] Re: Nautilus Goals

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

mitch nuclear physics gatech edu writes: 
> A.)Mozilla:
> 	Why does Nautilus need to use mozilla? Doesn't this produce a lot
> of overhead? Nautilus should browse files, perhaps be used for
> configurations, and simple html use. Wouldn't gtkhtml get the job done and
> done quicker?  

Yeah but you wouldn't be able to view many web pages that GtkHTML
can't handle. I don't see how this jibes with your point C anyhow.
 
> C.)GTK
> 	Being realistic, how much is gtk 1.2.x slowing Nautilus down? In
> my experience, QT has proved to be faster. The worse case I can think of
> is for users in 16 bit and even worse in 15 bit. Gtk has to dither
> down. If the user is in 15 bit, gtk has to dither down to 16 and then
> dither down to 15. This makes things god awful slow. Gtk 2.0 should be
> faster and better but it's of course not mainstream yet and the extent at
> which gtk 1.2.x slows things down is not really known. Or is it?

Do you just make this stuff up? What the heck are you talking about?

Havoc