On Sunday 02 September 2007 16:17:25 Giles Jones wrote: > On 2 Sep 2007, at 14:57, denis wrote: > > Watching a lot of videos about Openmoko and the GUI I saw that it is > > very slow and yards away from being "snappy". (regarding the > > application > > startup and the acting inside an application) I know that speed is not > > the priority thing in developement at the moment but how fast and > > "snappy" can the Openmoko GUI using GTK get? I'm looking at this from > > the user point of view, I'm not a developer so it would be very > > interesting to me what can be expected in the future. What are you're > > expectations? Will it get as snappy as the old PALM Pdas had been? > > > > I'm really looking forward for your answers. > > > > Regards, Denis. > > Launch speed is something that can be fixed, I'm not sure if the > build system is using pre-linking? if not it will be something to use > as this is the cure to application launch speed delays on Unix like > systems.
Lazy loading is too ... (the problem with delay is that ALL symbols need linkage also those not needed by the current user needs) > > The interface is VGA and so there's a lot more to draw and this makes > the GUI less responsive than QVGA. The acceleration in the next gen > hardware will solve this. > > The Palm PDAs were using task switching, it wasn't a full > multitasking OS, so you have to realise that a Linux based PDA will > always lag behind a very simple OS. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community