Re: Snappy GUI response

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 06:57:46PM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Restating your core problem, we might say: X requires app authors to
> > understand and code in light of its details in order to write
> > responsive apps.  Windows and OS X generally do not. So what we have
> > is a user interface issue with the X API ;-)
> 
> I think what we have is a toolkit problem mostly. I us a toolkit so it
> does all the work for me. Gtk knows about render, it knows about shm
> I'd expect it to do the other work too - the more it does the less apps
> you have to fix 8)

Right, by "X API" I didn't mean Xlib, but the whole API apps are
using. Toolkit or X server can both address the issue.

Owen's reasons for doing this on the server side if possible sound
sensible, though.

Havoc