x in om2007.2

[andrzej zaborowski]

2008/7/27 Marcus Bauer <marcus.bauer at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 13:26 +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
>> Am Sonntag 27 Juli 2008 09:52:57 schrieb sparky mat:
>> > kinda new here. i noticed that om2007.2 and asu are slower than qtopia
>> > (the one from trolltech, not the x11 port). i presume its partly
>> > because X is being used.
>>
>> It's less a problem of X and more a problem of Gtk+ taking ages to (re)draw
>> things on the screen.
>
> It is well known that you don't like GTK+ - fine. But just stop
> spreading your FUD against GTK+:
>
>        a) GTK is quite snappy on the neo1973 (GTA01) thus the problem
>        is not GTK but the limited memory bandwith on the
>        Freerunner/GTA02 due to the glamo chip.

I don't agree with that, it's the GTK that's not adapted to remote
framebuffers - it could be much snappier on the glamo, but it could be
much snappier on the GTA01 too if it did a little caching (on glamo
side or locally) instead of redrawing stuff constantly - just in case
something has been resized.  Note that I don't dislike GTK+.

I've been prompted to look at it when OM started to simplify themes by
removing bitmaps - the bitmaps and gradients should really make no
difference in UI speed, but they do.

On the other hand I don't agree with Mickey that we shouldn't modify
GTK+.  It definitely needs to be taught to cache graphics or it won't
be very successful on mobiles.

Cheers