Systemtray benchmarks

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Thu Apr 2 14:01:54 CEST 2009


On Wednesday 01 April 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 March 2009, Dario Freddi wrote:
> > Hi Marco,
> >
> > Just my 2 cents here.
> >
> > If the uncompressed raw data works and it's not an unmaintainable beast,
> > I'd go for it for the simple fact that having to
> > compress->transmit->decompress could be not so handy and sounds more 
like
> > a hack. If I got you right: decompress means back to raw data? If so, I'd
> > really prefer the second approach. Adding png would be an useless layer
> > of complexity, I think.
>
> agreed. it's guaranteed to be usable by everyone, even weirdos without png
> support ;) , and looks faster. so +1 for that.
to be really portable is enough as is now that assumes argb32 images or an 
overcomplication like galago?
i am for leaving as is for now and switch to a galago like thing if for 
instance it will seem a real issue when submitted to freedesktop...
>
> for the 10 icons in my system tray right now, it would take ~25-30ms to
> transfer them. that's approximately 40x faster than it currently takes just
> one of the icons to show up in the tray right now.
>
> wow.
>
> > Oh, forgot to say: great work :)
>
> +1




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