Bug#586373: libgtk2.0-0: huge performance decrease if Xorg's RENDER extension is disabled

Martin Monperrus martin.monperrus at gmail.com
Mon Jun 21 20:56:03 UTC 2010


> GTK+ and Pango heavily rely on RENDER indeed.
This seems problematic to me for two reasons:
* there is a technical alternative since QT works fine without RENDER,
google-chrome works fine without RENDER, libpangocairo works fine
without RENDER (according to pango-view --backend=cairo).
* this forces all users who don't have a working RENDER extension to
have a horrible user experience with Gnome, Firefox, and all GTK-based
applications.

Best regards, --Martin






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