[Lazarus] Linux

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Flávio Etrusco
<flavio.etrusco at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Let's be honest here: current versions of both GNOME and KDE are quite
> slower than XP UI.

I have to agree!  I am a huge Linux fan and hardly ever work on
Windows anymore (other than for quick application tests).


> It always felt a bit slower - what I and many others assumed to be
> caused by  the X architeture or lack of hardware acceleration - but
> benchmarks seemed to differ.

I definitely don't think it's the X architecture, but rather the bloat
in the desktop environments like Gnome and KDE. I often test the fpGUI
Toolkit on various DE's and Window Managers. I have about 7 different
Window Managers installed on my system. Most of them are a LOT faster
than Gnome or KDE. Sometimes I even switch my window manager for a few
days, so I can feel raw speed again!  :-)

> smooth; XFCE doesn't cut it since it switched to GTK2 :-/

I must agree here as well!  GTK2 is sluggish! I often find a bug in
Gnome, then switch to XFCE and hope it's not there, yet the bug still
exists. More inspection reveals that it's a GTK2 bug. :-(


Regards,
  - Graeme -


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