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Boris Zbarsky  
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 More options Jan 15, 11:32 am
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.apps.firefox
From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:32:00 -0600
Subject: Re: where is gtk 1 support ?

Robert Kaiser wrote:
> Does the performance penalty remain the same when using a theme that
> doesn't imitate a native look, like the Modern theme for SeaMonkey?

Yes.  That's exactly what I use, and responsiveness certainly got worse with the
switch to GTK2 on trunk.

> On modern systems, I don't see any perf problems I can feel, but those
> modern systems are of course not comparable in speed or memory to a P2
> or even P3 system.

Right.  I'm using a P3-733.

> Reality is that from what I hear most major Linux distros are striving
> hard to not ship GTK1 any more

I'm not saying we should switch back to GTK1.  I'm saying GTK2 has some real
problems.

> I guess GTK2 might never be as fast as GTK1 was though, as Unicode
> support, vastly improved accessibility, themability and font rendering
> probably need more memory and processor cycles no matter how efficient
> you do the programming.

Sure.  It's possible to try to make it faster and fail.  So far even the trying
hasn't happened.

-Boris


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