[Lazarus] Forms Color on Linux

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 24 May 2008, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:

> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Michael Van Canneyt
> <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
> > Then what is the cause of the perceived slowness of the IDE under GTK 2 ?
> 
> The only thing slow in the IDE is the code editor. The problem is with
> cairo, which is used to draw the text.

Is it cairo that forces use of double buffering ? 
I mean, drawing text should be a cheap operation, IMHO ?

(not trying to be difficult, just trying to understand...)

Michael.