Re: GTK+ (Was: Evolution 2.0 and GNOME 2.6)

["Eugenia Loli-Queru" <eloli hotmail com>]

>Maybe some people are just
> overly sensitive to this sort of thing than others.

I am indeed. It is pretty much the only thing that leaves a sour taste in
the (overall good) gnome usage experience.

>  For example, I can
> immediately tell when a monitor is running at 60Hz (and it drives me
> batty), whereas most of my colleagues can't.

Me too!! I know my brother can't, even my husband won't be too much annoyed
by low refresh rates, but I can't stand it more than 20 secs! :-)

Thanks!
Eugenia


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Tackaberry" <tack auc ca>
To: "Miguel de Icaza" <miguel ximian com>
Cc: "Eugenia Loli-Queru" <eloli hotmail com>; "Bastien Nocera"
<hadess hadess net>; <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: GTK+ (Was: Evolution 2.0 and GNOME 2.6)


> On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 13:33, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > I do not run Galeon or Abiword, but I do run a lot of other Gnome apps,
> > and I just tried popups in Evolution and in Gaim on a 300 Mhz machine,
> > and they come up immediately, so am inclined to believe that it is a bug
> > in those applications.
>
> I'm using Evo 1.4.5 with gtk2-2.2.4-0.ximian.6.2 on RHL9.  I have a P3
> 1.1GHz laptop with 512M of RAM with a Geforce2 Go using Nvidia's binary
> drivers.
>
> I can confirm Eugenia's observation on my system.  Right clicking an
> email in Evolution on the message list first displays the frame of the
> context menu, and some short time later, the actual items appear.
>
> Mozilla, for example, (which of course doesn't use gtk for menus), pops
> up instantly.
>
> gtk's popup menus appear and are functional in short enough time that
> this doesn't really bother me, but my eyes do see two stages in the
> drawing: the frame, and then the icons/text.  Maybe some people are just
> overly sensitive to this sort of thing than others.  For example, I can
> immediately tell when a monitor is running at 60Hz (and it drives me
> batty), whereas most of my colleagues can't.
>
> Just an observation, and not flamebait. :)
>
> Cheers,
> Jason.
>
>