[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] GTK2.8 ??

[From: Koen Kooi]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Peter Robinson schreef:
>> On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 06:29 +0300, ext
>> maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org wrote:
>> > As far as I know, the current SDK2.0 and IT2006 is based on GTK+
>> 2.6.10.
>> >
>> > Is there any roadmap that GTK2.8 with Cairo would be employed for
>> > further software releases?
>>
>> It depends on performance, we're looking into it. It's not much fun to
>> be stuck with unmaintained series. However we'll probably skip 2.8 now
>> that 2.10 is out.
> 
> I think the perforance will improve with whatever release of GTK
> supports cairo 1.4 which is suppose to be the 'performance release' so
> I think that'll be the one to look at. Also the OLPC project work
> should also assist in getting the performance we're after which will
> be nice.

The OLPC has an FPU, the 770 hasn't, so unless cairo grows a complete
fixedpoint backend + renderer it will always be ~10 times slower as the
good'ol gtk 2.6.x

regards,

Koen
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin)

iD8DBQFEv0JvMkyGM64RGpERApWyAJ9BWNb24Xd/FDZijm93B/SBnPJBuACeOlzX
Yx0L+DAN4o1N4nM2RkU6xhc=
=Vkca
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----