Jose' Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 30 May 2006 18:03, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > > I think we should ponder that carefully. If we really intend to get unicode > > support into 1.5 (which we want, don't we?), the bell for xforms tolls (is > > that an appropriate phrase)? > > Given that people (including me) intend to add some new features to 1.5 > > that need gui work, I would at least not be very fond to do all the xforms > > work additionally to gtk, qt3 and qt4, if it will then be dropped anyway > > later in that development cycle. > > +1 (or me too if you prefer
The problem is that the Qt frontends are as slow as hell in comparison to the XForms frontend. I don't care if you drop XForms but I really do think you should nail down the reason for this relative slowness. Until you do so, I don't think you're in a position to drop XForms. I'm aware that Abdel is investigating this slowness. I'd encourage others to dive in and give him a hand. At the very least you should be instrumenting the two frontends to see if one is being painted more frequently than the other. A simple void XFormsPainter::doPaint(){ static int counter; counter++; } might prove illuminating (together with Qt equivalent)... The people of Pisa have shown the world the troubles that await those who build on top of insufficient foundations ;-) Angus