Re: Mozilla Thunderbird
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 15:34, Rogério Brito wrote:
> On Jul 29 2003, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> > > The only problem that I see is that GTK 2 (which botk Mozilla and
> > > Mozilla Firebird in Debian use) feels slower than GTK 1, but I don't
> > > know if this is just subjective or if it is indeed slower.
> >
> > It may be slower in some cases, but it's much smoother. :)
>
> You mean smoother in the sense of anti-aliasing, good looking appearance
> or in the sense of programming/better API?
I mean the look'n'feel. Better looking, no flicker, ... Much of the
slowness is probably due to lack of hardware acceleration for the Render
extension in the X server.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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