On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:49:51 -0700 "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/27/06, Drucer Ninetynine <drucer99@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > --- Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > For kicks I built E17. It runs on my AMD64 machine > > > and looks fairly > > > nice but many of the basic windowing operations seem > > > sort of slow > > > compared to Gnome. > > > > Did you check the configuration tool? Check it out - > > you can set the value of frames per second. I do not > > remember what the default value was, but I could set > > it up to 200 frames per second with my 2.8GHz P4 > > system with Matrox Parhelia P650 graphics adapter. It > > was faster than anything else I've tried with this > > computer (and I've been running XFCE mostly). > > I didn't find any configuration tools, or they weren't obvious when I > looked around with my mouse. None the less I'm not really talking > about anything esoteric. It's just that I'll try moving a terminal > around or flipping firefox in back and in front of something else and > it seems sluggish. > > No big deal as there was a deal breaker I ran into immediately. When I > run MythTV in a window under Gnome I can move it around on my screen. > When I run it in a window in E17 I can move the control part of the > GUI but when the video starts playing it's stuck in the upper left > corner of the screen. That's not true on Gnome or KDE. However fvwm > and E17 all fail the same way. fluxbox, interestingly, doesn't give me > window decorations and incorrectly starts the video in the upper left > even when the GUI is located elsewhere, but at least fluxbox allows > the playing video to be moved where E17 and fvwm do not. > > > > > Anyway, maybe you compiled it with wrong options or > > something. It should not be slower than Gnome under > > any circuimstances. I suggest you wait until it's > > officially released and then test it and see if you > > like it. > > > > Yeah, most likely it's something I did or something they are not aware > of. Looks to me like they have a lot of work to do to come up to full > usability though. > > I've removed it from my system as it doesn;t look of value ot me right now. > > Cheers, > Mark FWIW I use the ROX desktop with OroboROX as the WM. It seems pretty snappy to me, and VERY configurable. -- Will J G
