How "snappy" can the Openmoko GUI get using GTK?
Ted Lemon
mellon at fugue.com
Sun Sep 2 16:58:46 CEST 2007
On Sep 2, 2007, at 7:17 AM, Giles Jones wrote:
> Launch speed is something that can be fixed, I'm not sure if the
> build system is using pre-linking? if not it will be something to
> use as this is the cure to application launch speed delays on Unix
> like systems.
This is probably true.
> The interface is VGA and so there's a lot more to draw and this
> makes the GUI less responsive than QVGA. The acceleration in the
> next gen hardware will solve this.
This is definitely not true. I mean, it's true that the QVGA is
going to take less time to paint, but paint times aren't the problem
- if they were, kinetic scrolling wouldn't look so nice. No,
there's something else going on that's making the UI so
unresponsive. Possibly something is timing out, or something's
running in lock-step that should be asynchronous.
> The Palm PDAs were using task switching, it wasn't a full
> multitasking OS, so you have to realise that a Linux based PDA will
> always lag behind a very simple OS.
Again, true, but not likely to produce the results we're seeing.
E.g., when an app is running, and a tap on the UI takes seconds to
produce a response, this is not something you can attribute to the
fact that Linux is a protected-mode multitasking kernel.
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