Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 23rd Mar 2007 17:58 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"The Ubuntu developers are moving very quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source Community has to offer. This is the Ubuntu 7.04 Beta and it comes packed with a whole host of excellent new features including the released GNOME 2.18, the 2.6.20 kernel and much more."
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IIRC libxcb corrects alot of the problems which people have with slow redrawing; its just a matter of getting GTK and Qt to move accross to it - and for LibXll to finally get killed off :-)
Edit: yes, I know that LibX11 is now just a wrapper over libxcb, but there is a performance penalty for that convinence of not breaking compatibility.
Edited 2007-03-24 12:10
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I moved to 7.04 since Herd 4. Feisty is much better than Edgy!
But it's still not perfect. In fact, it will never be perfect until the people behind X/GTK/QT fully manage to get ride of the windows resizing "bug". I know QT4 is ready for this and I know work is being done to implement it in X (or is it already done?) but it's still not available to the end-user.
For those who don't know what I'm talking about, just resize a window having multiple widgets. the widgets will replace themselves asynchronously (you will see the widgets moving around!). Windows, Mac and even BeOS don't have that problem. Some people will say I'm superficial but I'm not. I'm just annoyed by the issue :|