[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#494933: charmap.app: the range switching is terribly slow

[Michal Suchanek]

On 13/08/2008, Yavor Doganov <yavor at gnu.org> wrote:
> reassign gnustep-back0.14
>  found 494933 0.14.0-2
>  thanks
>
>
>  Michal Suchanek wrote:
>  >
>  > With both backends I get lots of windows flashing as they are mapped
>  > and unmapped repeatedly.
>
>
> OK, this is really weird and definitely a gnustep-back issue.
>
>  There are multiple problems that accumulate:
>
>  1) The `--GNU-Debug' option should not change at all your user/display
>    experience, it should merely print some extra messages.

It does not change anything.

>
>  2) With the cairo backend, you definitely should see all windows,
>    displayed faster and in theory better.  There were some issues with
>    the cairo backend in the past that were mostly resolved, but libart
>    is still the default.  What is your DefaultDepth?  Can you run
>    another GNUstep program (almost any Debian package that ends with
>    '.app') and confirm the same behaviour?

Yes, AClock has problems, too. I see only the background bitmap,
something that looks like shadows of the hands and some black UFO in
the properties dialog.

Thanks

Michal