Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 12th Mar 2008 22:59 UTC
The GNOME development community has announced the official release of version 2.22 after six months of development. GNOME is an open-source desktop environment that supplies a complete user interface and an assortment of programs for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. GNOME 2.22 includes some important new architectural features and a handful of significant new programs. Among the most important enhancements in GNOME 2.22 are the GVFS virtual file system framework, which brings improved network transparency to GNOME desktop applications, and the PolicyKit framework, which provides improved support for secure privilege elevation.
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2005-07-06
You my friend have a graphic card which has no RENDER support. This has nothing to do with GNOME-it has simply to do with the quality of the driver support for your graphics card. For all users of graphic cards even with only minimal RENDER support GNOME via its user of Cairo(which is a RENDER-based drawing API) runs (ie. draws, renders, paints etc.) far, far faster than ever before.
Now it is possible that you are just using a graphics driver which is horribly outdated-but in all likelihood you simply have a graphic card which cannot be adequately accelerated with EXA(the new RENDER-based acceleration driver architecture which is currently replacing the old-school XAA drivers). I use GNOME 2.20 on 4 different machines using 3 different graphics cards and slowness of GNOME/GTK+/CAIRO is something I have yet to encounter- 1) nvidia 6600GT 2) Intel 815 3( Radeon Express 200m. Of these 3 cards both Intel and Radeon (fglrx) have very weak RENDER support-yet I do not experience this tremendous slowness of GNOME/GTK+.
Now stop wasting your breath making pointless accusations about GNOME/GTK+. Inform yourself about the version of the driver you are using and see if there are not newer drivers available. Check out EXA status page at http://www.x.org/wiki/ExaStatus to see what kind of EXA work has been done for your card. If it turns out that your card cannot be accelerated by EXA, and your graphics is not built into the motherboard of a laptop or desktop with no expansions slots, simply fork out 30-40 Euro for a newer graphic card and your concerns will be history.