Bug#586373: libgtk2.0-0: huge performance decrease if Xorg's RENDER extension is disabled

2010-06-21 Thread Martin Monperrus
GTK+ and Pango heavily rely on RENDER indeed. This seems problematic to me for two reasons: * there is a technical alternative since QT works fine without RENDER, google-chrome works fine without RENDER, libpangocairo works fine without RENDER (according to pango-view --backend=cairo). * this

Bug#586373: libgtk2.0-0: huge performance decrease if Xorg's RENDER extension is disabled

2010-06-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 21 juin 2010 à 22:56 +0200, Martin Monperrus a écrit : GTK+ and Pango heavily rely on RENDER indeed. This seems problematic to me for two reasons: * there is a technical alternative since QT works fine without RENDER, google-chrome works fine without RENDER, libpangocairo works fine

Bug#586373: libgtk2.0-0: huge performance decrease if Xorg's RENDER extension is disabled

2010-06-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 18 juin 2010 à 23:56 +0200, Martin Monperrus a écrit : Because of a bug in a video driver, I had to disable Xorg's RENDER extension. As a result, the performance of GTK decreased significantly, and the applications on top of GTK, including Firefox and Eclipse, are almost unusable:

Bug#586373: libgtk2.0-0: huge performance decrease if Xorg's RENDER extension is disabled

2010-06-18 Thread Martin Monperrus
Package: libgtk2.0-0 Version: 2.20.1-1 Severity: important Dear Debian developers, Because of a bug in a video driver, I had to disable Xorg's RENDER extension. As a result, the performance of GTK decreased significantly, and the applications on top of GTK, including Firefox and Eclipse, are