Re: official support for more scripting languages in gnome needed

[Naba Kumar <kh_naba yahoo com>]

Vlad Harchev wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Ben Ford wrote:
>
> > >
> > > > I don't know.  I don't run those apps.  Actually, I take that back.  I tried sawfish
> > > > and not only was it a total bitch to compile, but it was slower than hell. It actually
> > > > took about two seconds for the window titlebar menu to pop down on a PII450 w/ 192
> > > > RAM.  Totally unacceptable.
> > >
> > >  As for sawfish - that delay was due to the way the *window menu* was coded
> > > (elegance of code and generic approach rather than speed of execution). That
> > > delay happens only 1st time since sawfish startup when you pop up window menu
> > > (and it's caused by the fact that not all modules were loaded yet (lazy
> > > loading) - so 2 secons are needed to load all modules on which 'menu' module
> > > depends).  On subsequent times, the menu pops up almost immediately.
> > >  As for compiling - you didn't have to compile it yourself..
> > >
> >
> > No, this was 2 seconds *each* time. (3 seconds the first time.)  As for compiling, as you
>
>  Hmm, perhaps it was a very old version of sawfish.. Just tried 0.36 on RH60
> on PII-800/128Mb and menu popups immediately on the 2nd+ time.
>

And don't expect everybody has those fancy boxes. I've PII-350, 64MB-RAM
and it takes hell out to pop it up with whole lot of HD grinding.
While on the other hand normal gtk menu takes 100 to 300 ms and I like it that way.

--

Regards,
-Naba

-------------------------------------------------------------
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
- Seneca
-------------------------------------------------------------