Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 4th Jun 2006 13:01 UTC
I enjoy using many different desktop environments and operating systems. On a day-to-day basis, I use Finder, Explorer, GNOME, and KDE. They all have their good sides, but obviously, they have their fair share of bad sides as well. The next couple of columns will be about the latter. This week, I take a look at whatever bothers me about Ubuntu's GNOME/Linux combination (Dapper, obviously).
Permalink for comment 130640
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Member since:
2005-07-06
I definitely agree with the GTK redraw problem. For me personally, that has been my number one complaint for the last 2 or 3 years about using Linux on the Desktop.
Here is an old video I made to demonstrate the problem. I don't think the problem is really any better than it use to be, but it's not as much of a problem for me these days because I don't use Gnome at all any more. I just use Openbox and rox-filer. I still notice sluggish redrawing, but it's not nearly as bad with general GTK apps as it is with Gnome+GTK apps.
http://www.davidcourtney.org/Files/Win-vs-Lin-video.asf
(Sorry that I only have an asf file. Video encoding isn't my thing.)
Here is another interesting video. I didn't make it ... I don't know who did. But this is the kind of ultra fast response time I dream about.
http://www.davidcourtney.org/Files/AmigaOS4-Fast.avi
I have Zeta installed on a spare machine ... one thing I really like about Zeta is how fast everything is. Navigating the file system, resizing windows, etc... It's all very responsive. The only slow thing about Zeta is when you draw your mouse cursor accross the desktop background as if you wanted to highlight multiple icons. For some reason, that single thing is *extremely* slow. I suspect it has to do with the fact that Zeta draws some kind of tranlucent window over the icons. They should get rid of the "special effect" and just use an ordinary line border.