E17 benchmarks

[Olivier FOURDAN]

Hi

Funny, there is no option to disable smart placement in xfwm4.

Are you sure we are talking about the same window manager?

Cheers,
Olivier.

> Message du 09/06/05 13:17
> De : "samuel verstraete" <samuel.verstraete at gmail.com>
> A : fourdan.olivier at wanadoo.fr, "XFCE4 development list" <xfce4-dev at xfce.org>
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> I agree with you Olivier... but when i disabled the the smart placement
> (just in the settings manager) this made no difference at all... (well
> a little bit but nothing spectacular)
> 
> gr,
> Sam
> 
> On Thu,  9 Jun 2005 13:10:09 +0200 (CEST)
> Olivier FOURDAN <fourdan.olivier at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > Xfwm4 computes the best suitable placement for a window before showing it. It basically means that it scans the whole screen, 8pix by 8pix computing the global overlap between every visible window at each iteration.
> > 
> > That benchmark shows nothing at all. If you remove the smart palcement, xfwm4 would probably be a lot faster *for that benchmark*  but would be a lot less usable IMO.
> > 
> > The speed of a window manager doesn't come from its ability to map windows as quickly as possible, but to respond to user (ie resize/move windows).
> > 
> > HTH
> > Olivier.
> > 
> > > Message du 09/06/05 09:54
> > > De : "Jasper Huijsmans" <jasper at xfce.org>
> > > A : xfce4-dev at xfce.org
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> > > Objet : E17 benchmarks
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> > > Hi Olivier,
> > > 
> > > Just saw some benchmarks by rasterman for E17. Xfwm4 comes out at the bottom,
> > > far below metacity. That sounds wrong to me. Maybe it's useful, maybe not...
> > > 
> > > http://www.rasterman.com
> > > 
> > > 	Jasper
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