Re: gEDA-user: PCB GTK version...

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda@xxxxxxxx>]

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Interesting thread, but nobody answered my first question:

What specifically is it about gtk+ 2.[4|6] that is so much slower than
say gtk+ 1.x?  I haven't notice critical amounts of slowdown in gschem
or gtkPCB on my P2-400/256M.  Certainly pango and friends do impact text
rendering performance and I have noticed longer startup times because
of the larger number of dependencies, but nothing what I've seen would
cause me to reject either software on a slower box, but then again I'm
slightly bias. :)  

I'm looking for specifics here.  I've heard and seen all the general
arguments already. ;)  Are we talking about displaying to a remote
terminal?  Menu drop down speed?  gdk drawing performance (other than
the win32 issues)?  GUI interactiveness?  What?  Plus I still want to
know what the OP's hardware setup is.

								-Ales

PS. I'm quite curious about all this, because I want to stay with gtk+ for
    anything new.