Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 13th Aug 2005 20:24 UTC
GTK+ 2.8.0 has been released. You can download it from here, and read the release notes here. GTK+ 2.8.0 depends on the Cairo vector graphics library for rendering most of the GTK+ widgets, bringing graphics capabilities as antialiased shapes, alpha blending, and gradients.
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RE[2]: Try an older machine
by evangs on Sun 14th Aug 2005 13:40
in reply to "RE: Try an older machine"
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I have a Dell Inspiron 3700 laptop from 1999. It has a Celeron 433 MHz processor, with 256 MB of RAM. I run Ubuntu Hoary on it, and GNOME runs fine. Not blazingly fast, but much better than Windows XP on the same desktop. Even my wife likes it better than Windows, and she's anything but a geek.
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First, let me preface my comment by saying that I use XFCE as my primary desktop, and I love GTK+, it's my favorite toolkit.
The person who pointed out it ran fine on their 2.8Ghz machine hit the nail on the head. That's a really ***** fast machine. Try running GTK on a P3-450 and see how it runs. Back when that was my primary desktop, I avoided GTK and Qt like the plague, those things were butt-slow.
I don't particularly have any problems with GTK on my 2Ghz laptop, but every now and then it bogs. I'm not too worried about it, but I'd like to see GTK work on improving the speed so it's a more viable toolkit for slower machines. I guess if Cairo makes it easier for them to program their toolkit, they should go for that and make optimizations later. But many of us do want the speed optimizations, but how does anyone have the assurance that the next big wizbang thing won't take priority then?