rawhide report: 20050121 changes

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Fri Jan 21 14:44:17 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 15:40 +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> I would not spend much energy on such a port.  A Gtk port means AA
> fonts which are really a bad choice for text based applications.
> Current (X)Emacs have a startup-time <1 second so that it can be used
> as $EDITOR. With Gtk I fear, that this will be somewhere around 5-10
> seconds.

Many GTK apps have startup times around 1s.  gedit, for example, on a
relatively fast box, and that's pulling some GNOME libs with it...  What
about emacs would make it so slow?

Dan




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