From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tooltips on w32 slow and strange Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:29:03 -0500 Message-ID: References: <016b01c51163$45e1d630$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <16186.217.194.34.123.1108368907.squirrel@wwws.franken.de> <4210762C.9030203@gnu.org> <003a01c5129c$c2c55e80$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <01c512d3$Blat.v2.4$ddc805c0@zahav.net.il> <200502150047.JAA02462@etlken.m17n.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108486147 16537 80.91.229.2 (15 Feb 2005 16:49:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:49:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, Kenichi Handa , lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, stahl@eos.franken.de, eliz@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 15 17:49:05 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D15rt-0002A2-Ps for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:48:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D160n-0004eA-C5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:57:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D160P-0004bh-64 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:56:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D160L-0004ZH-Dp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:56:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D160L-0004UG-4l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:56:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D15Zi-00049D-HN; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:29:22 -0500 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DB058282CB; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:29:22 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E9AB4AC21F; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:29:04 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 3D31B4BB76; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:29:04 -0500 (EST) Original-To: "Jan D." In-Reply-To: (Jan D.'s message of "Tue, 15 Feb 2005 07:19:10 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-4.799, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, AWL 0.10, BAYES_00 -4.90) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33485 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33485 > Just a small bit. In X11 a lot of windows are created (every button, menu, > etc. are separate windows), and X11 is fast when it comes to window > creation. And in any case, we would have to apply the frame parameters > again (font, color and such) and that still takes some time. They could also > be cached of course so we only re-apply what has been changed, but then > I think it is more effort than it is worth. The tradeoffs are quite different when running X11 remotely, of course. Stefan