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).
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2006-02-01
http://www.davidcourtney.org/Files/Win-vs-Lin-video.asf
(Sorry that I only have an asf file. Video encoding isn't my thing.)
I'm not saying that GTK's redraw speed couldn't be better -- it definitely could -- but that video is pretty unfair.
In the Windows case, the window is on top of a blank desktop with a few icons on it -- it doesn't even have to redraw any wallpaper. On the other hand, in the Linux case you've got a Nautilus window on top of Firefox. For whatever reason, Firefox's drawing speed under Linux is extremely poor (open a page with some Flash images -- the Flash parts of the page are always displayed first). This is certainly something that needs fixing, but it's not the responsibility of the Gnome project, or even GTK, but instead the Mozilla/Gecko people.
A fairer comparison would be to move/resize a Nautilus window on top of a plain Gnome desktop, without wallpaper, exactly as you had in Windows.