Submitted 10-May-01 by Fernando Pérez:
> I put the cooker Xemacs (21.4.0) rpms on a stock Mandrake 8.0 box, and the
> xemacs-gtk and xemacs-gtk-gnome versions of the binary are essentially
> unusable. Clicking on a menu takes easily 20-30 seconds to start it. It may
> be that it's a conflict between old 8.0 gnome libraries and the new ones in
> cooker.
I rebuilt those same RPMS locally on an 8.0 system. You need to
remember that Xemacs 21.4.0 is a "Gamma" release -- somewhere between
beta and stable. Furthermore, the GTK support is most definitely beta
(As an example, I get no scroll bars in my xemacs-gtk windows :p).
That said, in my locally compiled copy, the menus were slower than with
plain xemacs, but it has to do with the GTK implementation -- they seem
to recreate the widgets as needed. On a slow system that can slow
things down, but I see nothing like the 20-30 seconds you describe on my
P200 (running XFree86-FBDev-3.3.6)
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