Re: s l o w t y p i n g

[Thomas Canty <tommydal ihug com au>]

On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 10:39:41 Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
>  
> > And don't forget that there are non-pixmap themes such as ThinIce or
> > Xenophobia which look cool without using up too many resources. You're
> > not forced to use Default.
> 

It actually is a Gtk problem - a heavily pixmap theme just emphasises this
problem.
I used to also have this trouble with just the default theme - and my computer
is not slow.

This thing will be fixed in Gtk 2.0 (next release)

> Is it a theme problem?   I know from my own experience that it's slow on
> pixmap themes, but non gnome apps don't have the typing problem when I
> am useign an expensive pixmap.   
> 
> My machine runs quite well with the pixpams, some are faster than others
> of course, but over all speed is very usable except for text editing. 
> Yet, with huge memory hogs like Netscape, the Gimp and some photos,
> Corel Photopaint oprn I can still not out type non gnome apps, but load
> a gnome app and it's dog slow to type.
> 
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>   Rob Brown-Bayliss
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