Hello Nicolas, hello list,
* Nicolas Roard wrote on Aug/26/2006:
On 8/25/06, Andreas Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As a sidenote: As you can see I am using the cairo backend. But I have
to specify libgnustep-art for GWorkspace, or else I get a memory access
error ('Speicherzugriffsfehler') and GWorkspace crashes.
Er... I don't think it's recommended to use the cairo backend -- it's
slow and buggy, or at least it was when I had a look 2-3 months ago
(and I don't remember seeing lots of patches flying on svn about it).
Back-art is _much_ faster (particularly wrt Camaelon, and in general
the drawing/compositing operations), and in my opinion is certainly
the backend you should use for étoilé... so if you have it working (as
you use it for GW), why not using it as the general backend for every
apps ?
Oh. I am now (as per your suggestion). I think it came to be that way
because I had trouble with all backends and thought I would give cairo a
go, being convinced that this is the way to go in the not-so-long run.
Probably by updating some library during the last days, it started to
work more or less ("nearly" usable as you say), only GWorkspace did
crahs. Add to that a couple of Font problems and there I was with a mess
that "nearly" worked. I am still using mostly non-gnustep apps as of
now, so the missing things and the lack of speed didn't bother me that
much - I had the intention of getting deeper into the whole gnustep
thing later on. Oh well, anyway now I am using the art backend.
Though, I'm curious about your current experience with it, and why you
don't use -art ? (I didn't try with the accelerated cairo backend, so
that's perhaps why my experience with it wasn't great, apart from the
aforementionned bugs)
I have a couple of things not yet worked out, so I am not really sure if
it's a backend issue when I'm seeing something weird, or if it's due to
me not yet having everything configured correctly. As it is working more
or less already in my case, is there anything you want me to test in
particular?
Andreas
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