[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Irrelevant comparisons (was Re: testing pango with 770)

[From: Clemens Eisserer]

Hi agani,

wow this seems to develop to a real flamewar ;)

> I think it's useless to compare things that don't have the same
> features.  If something doesn't have a required feature, all of
> its apparent "speed" is useless.
>
> (Note: Qt >v2 is something you could feature-wise compare to
> current Gtk, but e.g. current Qtopia is based on Qt v2.)
This is the default "it has soo many features so it is slow and
there's no way arround that" argument.
I did not compare QTopia with GTK since those are quite different
things, I spoke about QT-4 vs GTK2 on top of an Xserver which has not
to do a lot with handhelds but with toolkit performance in general.


> Because of first, yes, it's faster, but it's also unusable
> un-professional looking due to flickering drawing (check e.g.
> how awful menus in Gnome 1.x look) and crappy looking fonts.
Hmm, yep it flickers but on the other side resizing windows or
sub-windows is incredible slow with GTK2. QT4 is quite good when it
comes to dynamic layouting and includes almost everything (or even
more) which is built into GTK2.


> Pango is also a known bottleneck, but without it the Gtk
> users would be restricted mostly to the English speaking
> minority <insert here "Hello world!" in Chinese and Indic/>.
QT can do the same and is faster. I don't know why nore do I care, I
am a java developer so these things do not really count for me - I am
a user-only and quite bothered by slow GTK UIs.

lg Clemens

PS: Peace