Suggestion: (btw I have no problems with the speed) You might want to make available a version linked against Zvt that people who don't need i18n and don't mind flick but do mind the added load (for whatever reason) could switch to. Havoc Pennington wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 08:19:20PM +0100, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > > Gnome-terminal like shipped in RedHat 8.0 is very, very, very slow. > > The funny thing is that Mandrake 9 cames with exactly the same version > > and it is about ten times faster (not an exaggeration). As fast as the > > gnome-terminal in Redhat 7.x or the standard xterm. > > > > I thought it could be related to fonts or antialisaing so I tried > > different fonts, turning off antialiasing and kerning but to no avail. > > > > So why is that RedHat's gnome-terminal is so much slower? > > > > Probably VTE backend widget vs. Zvt. We use VTE which works in > non-ASCII locales and uses the new font system and redraws without > flicker and other good stuff. > > Newer VTE versions are faster, though probably they won't ever be > quite as fast as Zvt (simply because some of Zvt's speed is gained by > cutting corners, such as Unicode support and i18n, that should not be > cut). > > I'd expect Mandrake to move to VTE in their next release, and GNOME > 2.2 will probably default to VTE. > > Havoc > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- +--------------------------------+---------------------------------------+ | Gerald W. Lester | "The man who fights for his ideals is | | Gerald.Lester@cox.net | the man who is alive." -- Cervantes | +--------------------------------+---------------------------------------+ -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
