Re: Where's those flying monkeys?

So, are there plans to patch the arch version of Y? I believe that 
asuffield mentioned a changeset, but I have never tracked it down. I 
would like to get a clean build on the main tree if possible.

Jost Boekemeier wrote:

>>OK. Now where is the changeset that fixes it the Right Way?
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>Both, the latest version of Y+ and Messina (will be online next month)
>should work.  These are forks of an old Y code base before it was messed
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>>1) As I've understand the docs, y-windows reduces the data, sent 
>>between the Y Server and the application,
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>Yes, but it doesn't mean that Y applications start or work faster.  In a
>high latency network with 1 second latency creating a 4 node application
>tree on the Y server takes 8 round-trips, 8 seconds + the time to
>flatten the tree into an image on the server-side.
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>>When using the canvas widget, wouldn't that break that technique? 
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>Yes, using a canvas with owner-drawn widgets (for example via Gtk/Cairo)
>instead of the Y protocol will help.
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>>porting gtk 
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>That's a non issue.  There will be a gdk/cairo backend. Florian's Y+
>server as well as Messina already incorporate Cairo as the backend.  So
>everything is there.
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>Jost
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