[geeks] GNOME may improve in the future...

[Kevin]

That's good, but it's got a damn long way to go before it
approaches anything near useful.  A 70% speed increase might not
be enough for me personally.  I'll keep WindowMaker for now.

/KRM


On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 09:42:56 -0500
Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 <patrick at zill.net> wrote:

> Here is a guy at Sun that is improving GNOME, his comments are
> interesting:
> 
> http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jmr#solaris_desktop_summit_performance_day2
> 
> "Gnome Terminal: interesting that the 30?70% improvement
> estimate yesterday by optimising some of the vte redraw code"
> 
> --yes, the stock xterm is visibly faster than Gnome Terminal
> when scrolling text
> 
> "Gtk: icon cache seems to be a little deranged, checking for
> the default High Color theme cache over a 100 times"
> 
> etc. etc.  
> 
> maybe GNOME will get faster...
> 
> --Patrick
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