Bug#586373: libgtk2.0-0: huge performance decrease if Xorg's RENDER extension is disabled

[Josselin Mouette]

Le lundi 21 juin 2010 à 22:56 +0200, Martin Monperrus a écrit :
> > GTK+ and Pango heavily rely on RENDER indeed.
> This seems problematic to me for two reasons:
> * there is a technical alternative since QT works fine without RENDER,
> google-chrome works fine without RENDER, libpangocairo works fine
> without RENDER (according to pango-view --backend=cairo).

Patches welcome, but frankly this is a waste of time.

> * this forces all users who don't have a working RENDER extension to
> have a horrible user experience with Gnome, Firefox, and all GTK-based
> applications.

This should not be a concern for Linux. If there is one broken driver,
it’s far easier to fix the driver than rewriting all applications to use
an alternate code path that doesn’t use RENDER.

“Software is hard.  The way to fix it is to fix it, not sweep it under
the rug.”

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