On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 01:07:13AM -0500, Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 07:51:31AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 07:50:00PM -0500, Michael Gilbert <[EMAIL > > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > severity 408460 wishlist > > > > thanks > > > > > > > > On 1/26/07, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > > >A workaround for this would be to set MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO. See the > > > > >/usr/doc/share/iceweasel/README.Debian file. > > > > > > > > this behavior can be annoying to the user. would it be possible to > > > > automatically set this option based on the language? for example, > > > > only use pango for those languages that have rendering issues without > > > > pango. > > > > > > Ubuntu does this, based on the user locale, and I think this is a very > > > bad idea. The user locale is not necessarily related to the language > > > used in the pages the user will look at. > > > > No, but it is our best approximation of whether that locale is especially > > important to the user (which isn't an especially good one). It is trivial > > for a power user to override this if it guesses incorrectly. > > The other issue is one of surprise. A weird side effect of installing > a locale will be that Firefox suddenly behaves differently and the > connection will be completely non-obvious to the user. > > > > I also heard activating EXA instead of XAA in the X configuration > > > improved the performance. > > > > Do you have a reference for this which we could follow up? I agree that the > > current Ubuntu solution isn't ideal, but it was unacceptable for performance > > to be as poor as it was for very common use cases. > > It really is a crappy situation, with both Pango and non-Pango > renderers being broken in their own special ways. I wonder if any work > is being done at speeding up Pango? Or is it Firefox's use of Pango > that's to blame?
Firefox's use of Pango is to blame. Other gnome applications are not that slow to display text, though contrary to all bug reporters I don't find Firefox particularly slow... That will hopefully change when they'll use the cairo backend. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
