[Sugar-devel] TamTamMini

[Daniel Narvaez]

And we can tackle lower level stuff... It's free and open code too! :)

On Monday, 18 November 2013, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:

> 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 <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> '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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Daniel Narvaez
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