Re: [E-devel] E CD player

[Tom G. <to...@li...>]

* Ben Ford (be...@ka...) wrote:
> Windows is *fast*.  No delays in any widgets.  Gtk is a bit laggy.  
> Using GAIM as a different example, things work great except when you use 
> backspace to clear text.  It goes *real* slow, so you tend to hold it 
> down.  Then, when you get where you want to, it keeps going until it 
> exhausts the buffer of backspaces.  Rather unuseable, in my opinion.  
> This is with X at -10 priority, also.

So change your keyboard repeat rate.

> Maybe it isn't Gtk.  But it seems rather coincidental that I have zero 
> lag in any windows app, and quite a bit of lag in several Gtk apps, 
> doesn't it?

Maybe you have X fonts issues too? Like I say, no problems here on a
number of machines.

> I don't know a lot about the evas architecture.  I have never messed 
> with it.  I am just frustrated with the gui toolkits available for X.  I 
> just figgered after seeing the blazingly fast menus in e17 that it would 
> make a good widget set. :)

There's a lot more to a widget set than that.

Tom.
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