[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: testing pango with 770

[From: Nils Faerber]

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Clemens Eisserer schrieb:
>>It's disappointing that with every release gtk gets slower...
> 
> I absolutly agree - GTK-1.2 has been a nice and fast toolkit but since
> the jump to 2.0 GTK is just one of those "too-bloated-to-be-tuneable"
> pieces of software no one wants to touch since it could break
> something.
> 
> And do not argue that big, feature richt toolkits are slow in general
> - Even large QT apps are snappy and very responsive whereas many large
> GTK-2 apps tend to be unuseable on slower systems (like my Dorun-800).
> 800mhz to render some buttons and layout texts??
> Maybe I am just too old to understand whats going on :(
> 
> A very favourite argument is that skinned toolkits are slow or X is
> slow, but how do other, much faster toolkits face with that.

Have you ever tried recent GPE on a 200MHz iPaq?
I find that very "snappy" too and it uses GTK2...

The latest GTK release uses Cairo for rendering - which is nice in
general but really a performance hog. But this is only in the very
latest release. I hope and guess that this problem has already been
recognised by the GTK developers and they hopefully work on it.

I would like to have Cairo as a compile time option and not a fixed
dependency. For small devices like the 770 or other PDAs you could then
go without it (or slower devices).

> lg Clemens
Cheers
  nils faerber

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