Re: Firefox/pango/cairo

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On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 15:25:44 +0100, Chris Jones wrote:

>> I'm biting my tongue a bit, because FC5 has been a complete mess from
>> my point of view. Broken sound card, GTK/GNOME performance plummeting
>> with the introduction of Cairo, Evolution still crashing regularly when
>> I quit while using the "Empty trash folders on exit" option. I've been
>> an RH user since 1999, but I'm giving serious consideration to
>> switching to another desktop and another distro.
> 
> I've noticed the same thing. With FC5 the (few) gnome apps I use are
> terrible compared to KDE's ones. Luckily, I don't really like gnome and
> use KDE instead :)
> The one app I do use now and then is firefox, and its performance is
> really poor compared to konqueror, my main web browser. Just switching
> desktops it takes a LOT long to redraw than konqueror (and I don't
> believe this is because I am running KDE, the same happens in gnome)
> 
> I guess you prefer gnome, but just try KDE and see it things are better.

The few Qt apps I use are fine. I try lyx-Qt (for example) and it works
fine... try a GTK app and it looks like it is being drawn on a 486. Drag
another window over a GTK apps... and the result is embarrassingly slow.
Nautilus, for example: open one nautilus window with lots of text in it,
and drag another across it. It's hopeless. For all the speed improvement
claims made for GNOME, it seems the recent versions of GTK ate it all and
then some.

What gfx card do you use? I'm using a Matrox G550. I get the strong
impression that no-one cares about these anymore, despite being
well-supported in the past and with free drivers (that's why I bought one
about three years ago)... and that these performance problems are just
there for good since there is no no-Cairo option for GTK... and they will
get even worse when Gecko uses Cairo exclusively.

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