Re: kde people is saying gtk is slow...

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Antonio Campos <acampos@extremadura.com> writes:
> Kde people (on www.kde.org) is saying gtk (or is it gnome?) is painfully
> slow refreshing the widgets ( I wouldn't say so much, but hey, I have to
> admit that one of the things that more disturbs me in Gnome/Gtk is the
> flashing of the redrawings, compared to Kde 1.2 ).
> What is the reality of these sentences with the upcoming GTK 2.0? Have
> anybody tried the new Owen's drawing improvements? If so, how well is
> the redrawing/flashing now?
> 

GTK 1.2 isn't slow, but it does flicker, and that appears slow. In GTK
2.0 the flicker is entirely eliminated thanks to Owen's work.

Moreover flicker is pretty much automatically eliminated for any
custom widgets you write. There's no need to explicitly use backing
pixmaps.

Havoc