Re: Question about GWorkspace

[Enrico Sersale]

On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, "Peron, Stéphane" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have just installed  gnustep et GWorkspace. I note that no author is
> mentionned in sources and on the web site.
> Is any one who knows who he is ?

Here he is!
My name is Enrico Sersale and I am the Author of this (for the
moment) very slow think ;-)

> I ask this question 'cause :
> 1) a have compiled GWorkspace and all icons are displayed without
> transparency and so, all transparency pixels in GWorkspace are in white !
> When i look a the web site screenshot, it is not the case. So does any one
> why ?

type:
"defaults write NSGlobalDomain GraphicCompositing yes"

> 2) GWorkspace seems to be very slow on my 750 mega herzt computer. When I
> point in the /dev directory, it is very slower than other files browsers
> like nautilus or gmc.
> Is it normal ?

>From the GNUstep docs:

  " It (xgps) is a back-end component for the GNUstep GUI Library.  The
implementation of the GNUstep GUI Library is designed in two parts.  The
first part is the front-end component which is independent of platform
and display system.  This front-end is combined with a back-end
component which handles all of the display system dependent such as
specific calls to the X Window System.  This design allows the GNUstep
applications to have the "look and feel" of the underlying display
system without any changes to the application, and the library can be
easily ported to other display systems.

   The GNUstep GUI X/GPS Backend is for platforms using the X Window
System It works via a DPS emulation engine to use Xlib calls to emulate
the DPS functions required by the front-end system."

The slowness you've noticed is because of this emulation that still needs
some work.

In the meantime, if you have some patience ;-) in using the GNUstep apps,
you'll see that they are (or will become very soon) much better than
nautilus or gmc...

They are "an other thing".

Enrico