Re: Shameless plug: GTK-Wimp

Richard Atterer wrote:
>  - It's noticeably slower than "plain" GTK+. (BTW, lots of messages
>    are printed on the console: 'WARNING **: Couldn't load font "MS Sans
>    Serif 8" falling back to "Sans 8"')

Hmm. What GTK version are you using, 2.2?

I don't have access to a W98 machine, could you try the following? What 
happens if you use the following gtkrc file on plain GTK+, do you also 
get those messages?

--8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<--
style "bla"
{
  font_name = "MS Sans Serif 8"
}
class "GtkWidget" style "bla"
--8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<--

Also, I am wondering if it is slow because of the messages being printed 
repeatedly, or if it is slow even without the messages?

>  - There's no prelighting of buttons. OK, so by default Windows doesn't do 
>    that either, but it's useful for getting visual feedback that something
>    clickable is under the pointer.

Sorry, but whether or not it is useful is not the point. The aim is to 
immitate the default Windows behaviour, regardless of whether that 
behavior is user friendly. (Btw, I like prelighting myself).

>  - "Wimp" is actually the name of the Acorn RISC OS window manager, the 
>    IMHO nicest GUI system ever. Unfortunately, the community is pretty
>    small. See <http://atterer.net/acorn.html#screenshots> - IIRC it stands
>    for "windows, icons, mouse, pointer".

Ummm, if someone starts sueing me I'll think about another name. But for 
now, it will have to do....

> Furthermore, problems with a GtkTextView which I'm using to display the
> GPL:
>  
>  - Empty lines are not displayed

Noted...

>  - Resizing is really too slow IMHO. On my 266 MHz P2 test machine, without 
>    GTK-Wimp the speed is acceptable, but with GTK-Wimp it gets a bit 
>    annoying.

Are the messages you describe above being printed while resizing?
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