Re: Flicker in 1.8.0

[<sentry21@cdslash.net>]

> > The problem was that I had mad lag to the server, and every second, XChat
> > updated the timer - all of them, in all my windows, to all my servers -
> > and it would flicker as it redrew them every second, which it had to do
> > beacuse the lag bar filled up and the numerical values changed.
>
> mmh, Its correct.. only happends when the lag changes though, and since
> I'm on a fairly stable connection theese days it doesn't change that
> overly much ... ( 0.6 seconds through the proxy and a compreessed SSH2
> pipe)

I noticed it when my ISP was doing some rerouting (or de-routing it seemed
at the time).

> > I consider this a flaw in GTK personally (one of many).
>
> hmm, Not so sure if its directly involved with GTK or if its to be
> blamed on some refresh routine thats called every update in every window
> instead of once per batch of meters. Then again, I'm not a gtk+ coder. :)

I tried to be - changed my mind rather quick after I saw what the code
needed to look like =;>

> > I can't help but wonder if getting XRENDER working on my compile of X
> > would help at all, letting the text drawing occur on the server side
> > instead of the client/library side (and being antialiased too).
>
> hmm... Does the stable branch of Gtk+ support this? i thought it was
> only used in the gtk2 cvs series.. and that isn't really stable....yet
> ;-)

All my testing has been with an antialiasing patch that I have - the
.tar.gz has patches for gtk/gdk, Mozilla, and Evolution. Problem is, on
the later versions, parts of the patch error out, so I haven't been keen
on trying it.

Maybe we'll get some drastic improvements with GTK+ 2.0, or maybe it'll
all go to hell.

> > Anyone have any insight? Maybe this is causing flicker for people too.
> Youre right, its the lag'o'meter bar.. not the text though i dont think..

Beats me, I just turned both off. I only had them on 'cause they were
pretty anyway. ^_^

> > Incidentally, I've noticed that the lag bar fills up rather rapidly, and
> > is full long before xchat gives up on the server and disconnects. Perhaps
> > it could be changed so that the max value for the bar is equal to the time
> > xchat waits before giving up?
>
> No thanks, that would be too difficult to discern at a glance.. But I'd
> rather see a setting for the full-lag-bar in seconds.. now i think it is
> three seconds.. On a net such as undernet it should at least be 8
> seconds, preferably 45 at some days :7

That would be a nice feature. Come to think of it, I'd like to set the
delay before I get disconnected too, or be able to turn that feature off.

<Sentry21> brb
/exec /etc/init.d/ntpdate start
* my broken BIOS clock is updated from Jan 1st 1996 to the right date *
--- Disconnected


--Dan

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