On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 16:48 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: > On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 16:37, Morten Welinder wrote: > > > Running GTK2+ programs remotely (ssh over adsl) is already a pain > > > anyway. > > > > It shouldn't be. And it really isn't with the right compressing proxy and > > a quiet theme. (http://www.nomachine.com/products.php, for example. > > Painful to set up last I tried, but quite effective.) > > Fact is: > - remote GTK1 apps are fast (because of core X fonts use perhaps ?), > GTK2 apps are nearly unusable. (I know I sound like a troll, sorry). > - ssh is the only secure proxy available in all distros. > > So remote GTK2 apps aren't a reality, no need to optimize for that case. Or, we identify the source of the problem, and fix it. Xft/Render was created explicitly to solve the problem that core fonts over slow lines is bad. http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/usenix2003/html/net.html Ross -- Ross Burton mail: ross burtonini com jabber: ross burtonini com www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF
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