Re: [Patch] Cursor cache

2009-01-19 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert gilbe...@treblig.org wrote: * Matthias Clasen (matthias.cla...@gmail.com) wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert gilbe...@treblig.org wrote: * Matthias Clasen (matthias.cla...@gmail.com) wrote: Thanks for the

Re: g_malloc overhead

2009-01-19 Thread BJörn Lindqvist
Actually, a custom allocator could be useful even in the general case. Malloc is a system call and has quite bad performance on certain platforms (windows in particular i think). Something like the gslice allocator could Probably improve performance a bit. 2009/1/18, muppet sc...@asofyet.org:

GLib 2.19.5 released

2009-01-19 Thread Matthias Clasen
GLib 2.19.5 is now available for download at: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/glib/2.19/ http://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.19/ glib-2.19.5.tar.bz2 md5sum: b9f8453dd38266108641c448ea8d5bee glib-2.19.5.tar.gz md5sum: 008ca6368c8f4d6e286be8eb2b4be24c This is the fifth development release leading

[REMINDER] GTK+ Team Meeting - January 20th

2009-01-19 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi everyone; this is the usual reminder for the IRC GTK+ Team Meeting. the meeting will be held in the #gtk-devel channel on irc.gnome.org, at 20:00 UTC[1]. the points are: o new GTK+ hackfest (behdad) o Miscellaneous eventual changes will be notified on the wiki page[0]. everyone can

Bikeshedding the invisible-char

2009-01-19 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
Fedora has a (currently unapplied?) patch in its gtk2 package which changes GtkEntry's invisible-char defualt from * to • (Unicode 0x2022 BULLET). openSUSE has a patch that changes the invisible-char to ● (Unicode 0x25CF BLACK CIRCLE). I'm arguing for committing openSUSE's patch based on the

Re: Bikeshedding the invisible-char

2009-01-19 Thread Yu Feng
Hi Federico, If I can have a word on this: The big circle is wider than most characters. Compare the following 3 patterns: (10 chars, monospace) ●● •• 1234567890 When people type in a password they don't expect it to look much longer than what has been typed, right? Regards,

Re: Bikeshedding the invisible-char

2009-01-19 Thread Brian J. Tarricone
Federico Mena Quintero wrote: openSUSE has a patch that changes the invisible-char to ● (Unicode 0x25CF BLACK CIRCLE). What happens when the current font is missing that character? Will it try to find another font that has it, or will there be a manual fallback that uses '*' instead? The

Re: Bikeshedding the invisible-char

2009-01-19 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 04:14 +0200, Xan Lopez wrote: How is this different from bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83935 that was committed some months ago? It even uses your favorite character! Argh, I'm an idiot. As usual, Garnacho created the perfect patch. What happened is

Re: Decorating scales

2009-01-19 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Matthias Clasen matthias.cla...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to get this functionality into 2.16, if nobody objects, but I'm not entirely sure that I have managed to come up with the best possible api for this yet: To wrap up this discussion: I just committed a