Re: Drawing speed

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

gphat@mail.midtnn.net writes:
> Today when I was attempting to add a launcher to my panel, I notice how
> slow and ugly the drawing of the window was.
> 
> Now Im on an Athlon 500, 128Mb, w/a Voodoo, so there should be no draw!
> It should just pop up!
> 
> With the default gtk look, things zip around, but with any themes, it
> slows down alot.
>

Some of the themes are really slow. Just don't use the slow ones.

In particular themes that are pixmap collections rather than "engines"
are slow.
 
> I picked up the gtk source and compiled it, thinking that if I compiled
> it, it would be faster, but no dice.
> 

No, compiling it yourself doesn't make it any faster than someone else
compiling it for you. :-)

Havoc