> 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)
>
Weird. Yesterday I built Xemacs 21.4.1 myself from the original tarballs
(not the rpms) and I still get the same ungodly slow behavior (PIII-450,
256Mb RAM). I wonder what it may be. Anyway, it will be nice when gtk
support stabilizes, in the meantime I'll just use the regular Xemacs 21.4
from the cooker rpms. The non-gtk one behaves fine, and the improvements
over the previous version (whatever was in 8.0) are really nice: *much*
better menu structure, shift-keys highliting, buffer tabs, etc. I love it.
Thanks to those who looked into it.
Fernando
