GTK2

Moritz Heiber MisterMoe at hackerboard.de
Mon Dec 30 16:54:27 CET 2002


I think it's more likely the blown GNOME2 which slows down your
computer. XFCE4 runs faster than any other GTK2 environment I've been
testing yet.

Cheers,

Moritz

On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 07:50:18 -0800 (PST)
Chris Meyers <kedeshkahuna at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm extremely disappointed in gtk2. Although it looks
> better and seems to have better features, it's the
> slowes t thing I've used yet. I'm using a P-266 with
> 160mb of ram and gedit runs so slowly, I had to switch
> to kate. I've noticed the same thing from all apps I
> use that have upgraded to gtk2. By contrast, kde3
> seems faster and more usable than kde2. What gives? If
> xfce migrates to gtk2, won't it just pick up that same
> bulk and slowness? What's the point of a lightweight
> desktop built on a slow, bulky gtk2?
> 
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