Re: gtk-menu-popup-delay

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 17:07, Ross Burton wrote:
> 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

>From this paper I have the feeling that the client-side fonts help to
optimize the startup time. The most apparent problem in my case is the
constant 1-second lag for all simple actions on the gui.
If somebody has an idea for a nice diagnosis tool (xmon ?) - I can't
sniff packets on my machine.

	Xav