Raster, thank you for explanation! If I get it right there is no difference in speed between qtopia and other distros related to graphics. And just for education - what 'misnoma' means?
On 9/8/08, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 20:45:45 -0400 Yaroslav Halchenko > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > >> >> > for example. lets say i spend 1 second to write data to video ram - that >> > is >> > 1 second i CANNOT spend on anything else. the glamo limits write rates >> > to >> > about >> >> so why then during boot of X in ASU (2008.8) those precious cycles are >> spent on a 'box animation'? uff > > because 1. users need to know the device is alive at all and not just hung - > so > something needs to change on the screen. otherwise for a long time the > screen > is "hung". and 2. that is just following in design from the existing design > for > the booting screen. as e has no idea how far along it is in init until it is > told "i'm done" - it can just display some form of status. a bouncing box > follows an existing notion of "that means its busy but doesnt know how long > to > go" from the windows boot as well as splash from psplash/ubuntu, and gtk and > other widget sets uses this as an indicator of just that. > > you are free to modify the theme though. i personally would have gone for > something different - but that's a question of taste and preferences. it > also > wont help the boot THAT much. you want to find the BIG gains - not the small > ones. it consumes maybe about 20-25% (combine enlightenment_init and xglamo) > for the animation. so yes - u'd speed it up by a bit - but not immensely > (not > double or triple which is what u really want). > > > -- > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
