Re: rawhide report: 20050121 changes

[Enrico Scholz <enrico scholz informatik tu-chemnitz de>]

dcbw redhat com (Dan Williams) writes:

>> 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,

not here (P4 2.6 GHz)... gedit needs 5-6 seconds to come up. On first
startup it needs yet more as it has to start lots of Gnome programs.



Enrico