I compile ethereal myself for both myself and colleagues in my organization
so whether Gtk1 or 2 is used is by the precompiled distribution not very
important to me,
however, there are two main reaons I dont use Gtk2 myself or why some of my
colleagues do no like it:
1, Gtk2 is much slower than Gtk1. Or at least used to be. Have not found any
need to retest it recently but it might have changed.
I often work with 500MByte+ captures and even 10% performance difference is
noticeable.
2, Gtk2 seems to have MUCH huger spacing between the lines, especially in
the dissect pane. This adds up to a LOT of lost real estate on the screen.
Can the spacing between the lines in the dissect pane be reduced?
Mit freundliche Grussen
ronnie sahlberg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ulf Lamping"
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Next release
> Gerald Combs wrote:
>
> > John McDermott wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I agree with the idea GTK2. My question is this: I already have three
copies of the GTK2 libraries for various programs. Will I need yet another
copy or will we be able to share?
> >
> >
> > The plan is to ship with GTK2, as we currently do with GTK1. I suppose
we could use an external GTK2 package instead, such as the one Dropline
Systems puts out (http://www.dropline.net/gtk/). This might complicate
things a bit, since some people might prefer an all-in-one installer.
> >
>
> I prefer an "all-in-one" package.
>
> BTW: why do you want to have "combined libs" for various programs, as
today's harddisk's are so cheap and a DLL version conflict is a really ugly
thing to have. Believe me, I had that problem together with the Gimp,
installed a new Gimp version and my Ethereal development build wasn't
working any longer.
>
>
> To summarize:
>
> The modern UI installer seems to be widely accepted.
>
> The GTK1 / 2 question:
>
> a) seperate GTK1 and GTK2 installers
> b) combined installer for GTK 1 and 2
> c) ditch GTK1 completely
>
> I don't want c) at the moment, as this will hinder people from doing the
"backstep" using GTK1, if some real problem occurs in the wild. We might
want to do this step in the next release, if we don't hear from any problems
of our user's.
>
> I don't see any real difference in a) and b). I tend to like b) as this
will make handling a bit easier, and file size isn't a problem for me
personally (although some people say that size *does* matter ;-)
>
> Anyway if a) or b), we might want to declare the GTK2 port as default (as
it seems to be really ok now), to encourage users to really try it.
>
> Regards, ULFL
>
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