nanogui@linuxhacker.org

On Tue, 11 May 1999, Alex Holden wrote:

> On Tue, 11 May 1999, Vidar Hokstad wrote:
> > Yeah, I remember that too.. There's still a lot of bloat there, IMHO, but
> > it's been steadily dropping in size. Also, most of the bloat is in the
> > Mozilla GUI code, it seems, not in the rendering engine. The rendering
> > engine is actually pretty nice now :)
> 
> Any idea why there is a noticable delay between moving the mouse pointer
> over a button, and the button becoming highlighted? GTK+ doesn't do that,
> so they must have messed around with the event chain somehow, adding
> masses of processing into what should have been a pretty fast response
> chain. I don't see why they would have done that though...

I don't know exactly what it is, but the general sluggishness of the Linux
port is supposedly something with a known solution on the todo list, so I
expect it to be fixed soon.

If you do a "strace" on apprunner or viewer, you should see right away
that there's something funny going on :-)

Vidar Hokstad <vidarh@screenmedia.no>
Director of R&D, Screen Media AS