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
