jgarb@CSD360B.ERIM.ORG (Joe Garbarino) (05/13/89)
Forest Baskett of SGI says: > not use too many CPU cycles, and do menus and such tools quickly. Most > people I know don't move or resize windows very many times per minute/ > hour/day so the speed of those operations is not especially critical... Is it true that you Iris users out there don't move windows very often? I have to admit that my use of window systems may be different than the typical Iris user. I often have many windows open at the same time, causing them to overlap, become obscured, etc. What do you other Iris users think about this?? Am I in the minority or the majority? Would it be irritating to you to spend twenty seconds moving a window as it now takes in the currently available X Window System implementation? Let's hear from others on this issue. Joe Garbarino ERIM P.O. Box 8618 Ann Arbor, Mi. 48107 (313)994-1200 x2508 jgarb@csd360b.erim.org
mem%inls1@UCSD.EDU (Margaret Mikulska) (05/13/89)
From info-iris-request@vmb.brl.mil Fri May 12 12:46:14 1989 To: info-iris@BRL.MIL Subject: Window Movement Frequency (was X Window System performance on Iris) Joe Garbarino writes: >Is it true that you Iris users out there don't move windows very >often? I have to admit that my use of window systems may be different >than the typical Iris user. I often have many windows open at the >same time, causing them to overlap, become obscured, etc. What do you >other Iris users think about this?? Am I in the minority or the >majority? Would it be irritating to you to spend twenty seconds >moving a window as it now takes in the currently available X Window >System implementation? Let's hear from others on this issue. I use many windows at the same time and manipulate them A LOT. Sometimes when I could choose between a Sun-3 and an IRIS 3130, I preferred the IRIS because of window speed. If it took me 20 sec to move a window, I would go insane and give up on using the machine. Seriously, a FAST windowing system which supports a large number of windows is essential for me. Margaret Mikulska Univ. of California, San Diego Institute for Nonlinear Science mem@inls1.ucsd.edu ucsd!inls1!mem
blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV ("Brent L. Bates TAD/TAB ms294 x42854") (05/13/89)
20 seconds is too long. I all ways have at least 2 or 3 windows open. Sometimes as many as 6 or 7 and I am 'pushing' and 'poping' them all the time. -- Brent L. Bates NASA-Langley Research Center M.S. 294 Hampton, Virginia 23665-5225 (804) 864-2854 E-mail: blbates@aero4.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero2.larc.nasa.gov
msc@ramoth.SGI.COM (Mark Callow) (05/14/89)
In article <8905121836.AA11850@csd360b.erim.org>, jgarb@CSD360B.ERIM.ORG (Joe Garbarino) writes: > > Forest Baskett of SGI says: > majority? Would it be irritating to you to spend twenty seconds > moving a window as it now takes in the currently available X Window > System implementation? Let's hear from others on this issue. > > I agree that it is irritating to spend 20 seconds moving a window. I also agree that the performance of the X special we started sending out in November, as I explained earlier, leaves something to be desired. You don't say what machine you are using. As I said earlier, a microcode problem on the GTX rendered uwm on that machine intolerable. That problem is fixed in 3.1 Rev G, which contains the X product we are about to start shipping. That product, as I also indicated earlier, is anywhere from 5 to 100 times faster that what you have now. uwm is completely usable on all GT, GTX and Personal Iris products. It will not take you 20 seconds to move a window. Wait until you see it before you judge it. -- -Mark
fsfacca@LERC08.NAS.NASA.GOV (Tony Facca) (05/15/89)
My vote: 20 seconds is too long. I even get a little bit annoyed at the 3.1D window closes, now that it draws little SGI logos. It used to be instananeous, now its barely noticable, but still "noticable". It also seems to take a fraction of a second longer to repaint the screen as well. No big deal, but the point is, we're used to very fast window movement, it'll be difficult to give that up -- even for X. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony Facca | phone: 216-433-8318 NASA Lewis Research Center | Cleveland, Ohio 44135 | email: fsfacca@lerc08.nas.nasa.gov -----------------------------------------------------------------------------