Re: Help API for GNOME 2.0

[john sheehan <john sheehan Sun COM>]

Dan Mueth wrote:

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> After chatting on #sun a bit this morning...  It sounds like all GNOME
> programs which use the component system are abysmally slow on Solaris.
> Apparantly Evolution even slower than Nautilus.  Since I see no
> fundamental reason why GNOME programs or the component system must be
> slower on Solaris than on Linux, I expect that it is just a matter of work
> to fix it.  And since GNOME isn't really GNOME without any of the apps
> which use the component system, I'm betting this problem will be fixed ;)
> 
> So, I'm going to start assuming that Nautilus will work alright on Solaris
> as our help browser and forget about the need for an HTML-only help
> browser unless people start making a lot of noise.
> 

Hi Dan.  That's a fair assumption.  We need to investigate and fix the
performance of Gnome generally on Solaris.  But Solaris performance
should
not constrain whatever the correct decision is for help browsing on 2.0.