In regard to: Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp on OS X, Daniel Egger said (at...: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > > >On Feb 5, 2004, at 10:35 pm, <pcg@xxxxxxxx ( Marc) (A.) (Lehmann )> >wrote: > >> It helps to a) avoid antialiasing (small effect) b) use x fonts (big >> effect). > >Thanks for this tip. I'll try installing some high quality X fonts >(which is sort of an Oxymoron but anyway). The interesting thing >is, my Linux notebook is running exactly the same truetype fonts >which I extracted from Mac OS X 10.2 some time ago. I haven't played with OS X enough to know, but does its X server support the Render extension? If not, that's probably why GTK+ 2 is slower. Also, support for X fonts in pango has been dropped, so in the not-too-distant future Marc's suggestion isn't going to be an option. Owen explained it very well here http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2003-April/msg00176.html >The net result is not only that gnumeric is hardly fast enough to be >usable but also that many GTK2 applications really feel slow and the >perceived speed is especially important for daily use. I've noticed this too, using an X server on a commercial UNIX platform. Owen has talked about performance improvements for non-Render platforms, and I'm certainly hoping they become a reality in the next year. Tim -- Tim Mooney mooney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Information Technology Services (701) 231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6, IACC Building (701) 231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164
