[Sugar-devel] TamTamMini

[Gonzalo Odiard]

There are some ow level stuff, but we can solve some problems in the
activities too.
You can see the other thread I started about performance.
Also, dsd solved some of the problems related with the dynamic bindings.

Gonzalo


On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Sebastian Silva
<sebastian at fuentelibre.org>wrote:

>  El 17/11/13 12:58, Gonzalo Odiard escribió:
>
> I hope we can solve the performance problems then you don't need use a old
> Sugar version,
> to avoid all these problems.
>
>
> Well, I don't think it's likely you or me will be able to fix this one.
> It's lower level than Python
> and it looks to be by design of the lower level libraries.
>
> Note this mainly affects the XO1 which is already considered End Of Life.
> I think efforts are
> much more productive in trying to make the GNU+Sugar user experience
> excellent on
> Classmates and other netbooks.
>
> BTW, we are not the only ones affected. The entire LXDE desktop
> environment has decided
> to forego migrating to GTK3 and instead decided to port everything to QT.
>
> Here's a quote from the initial release of the QT file manager PCManFM [1]:
> *"I, however, need to admit that working with Qt/C++ is much more pleasant
> and productive than messing with C/GObject/GTK+.*
> *Since GTK+ 3 breaks backward compatibility a lot and it becomes more
> memory hungry and slower, I don’t see much advantage of GTK+ now. GTK+ 2 is
> lighter, but it’s no longer true for GTK+ 3. Ironically, fixing all of the
> broken compatibility is even harder than porting to Qt in some cases
> (PCManFM IMO is one of them).*
> *So If someone is starting a whole new project and is thinking about what
> GUI toolkit to use, personally I might recommend Qt if you’re not targeting
> Gnome 3.*
>
> *" [1] *http://blog.lxde.org/?p=990
>
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