Speed and Look.. what comes next.

[George Staikos]

On Saturday 03 April 2004 13:31, Enrico Ros wrote:
> On Saturday 03 April 2004 18:10, Enrico Ros wrote:
> > I want to apply the patches you find in that page, so I'm asking if I
> > can. Here is the list of patches:
>
> While waiting to hear your comments about the pending commits, I'd like to
> know your opinions about what are the graphics improvements that must be
> done on the filebrowsing views now.
> By applying the pending patches the IconView filebrowser takes no more
> repaints than what it needs. In fact i was bored to hear someone saying
> gnome or w.. filebrowsers look better only because of flickering!
> --complains;
>
> So, if anyone sees agfx bug, please tell me! Now I'm going to take a look
> to KFileView(s) because they have similar problems.

  I think I speak for everyone when I say it's great to see someone else 
working on these things.  Performance enhancement work is a great thing and 
we get too little of it.  One thing I have heard comments about is the KDE 
file dialog.  I was told that it takes approximately 10 times as long as Qt's 
file dialog to list a large directory (thousands of files).

   On a somewhat related note, the new tabbar has major performance problems.  
It's especially noticeable in Konsole when there are about 6 or more tabs 
open and in the ~4th tab you hold in backspace to trigger lots of beeps.  The 
flicker is very intense.  This seems to apply in different ways to Konqueror 
in tabbed browsing mode too.

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George Staikos
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