Re: [CSCMail-Users] slow typing

[Steven K. <sk...@st...>]

On 13 Nov 2000 17:16:53 -0300, matkev said:

> hi, I'm matias from argentina, I really like your email client "cscmail" but
> I'm having this anoying trouble: it's really slow when I'm typing a new mail,
> it takes a lot to print in the screen what I'm typing, and that's
> uncomfortable, and gets worse when I have delete something, I release the
> backspace button but it keeps deleting for a while and of course things that
I
> didn't want to delete. First I thought I was because my PC it's an old
pentium
> 233 with 64Mb RAM, but I don't have that problem even with Staroffice 5.2
which
> I think it's a really heavy soft.
> I'd like to know if it is a problem of my PC or it's something that you
didn't
> solve yet. Thanks a lot, and excuse my poor english. I'm not in your mail
list,
> so please cc me in your answer.
> Matias Morawicki
> 
> PS: I notice that in the "to" and "subject" fields I don't have that problem.

This is a known issue with the GtkText widget that we use for message
composition.  Ways to speed it up include switching to a less memory intensive
Gtk Theme, as well as shrinking the window.  Just a small adjustment to make
the window smaller will make a noticable jump in typing speed.

Hopefully GtkText (or its big brother) will be much faster in Gtk+ 1.4

-CZ