Re: Live Splitview patch

[Robert J. Slover]

On May 15, 2009, at 10:49 AM, Wolfgang Lux wrote:
> In order to keep Riccardo happy you might introduce a new user  
> default to
> switch between live and non-live resize. However, given that the  
> changes
> appear quite substantial upon a superficial look, I don't know whether
> this is feasible.

I would concur with Wolfgang that, if this behavior is optional, it  
would best be controlled by a user default rather than by some dynamic  
test (timing of operations, etc.)  Different people have different  
thresholds of tolerance for "slow" behavior; an automatic test is  
unlikely to satisfy as many people as a simple choice might.

The fastest "PC" I have in service right now is a 200MHz PIII.  It is  
"fast enough" for the few things I use it for, and I don't like  
generic PC hardware enough to justify the effort or time needed to  
upgrade it yet.  I use my MacBook or Sun workstation for most things.   
If it were possible to turn this feature off, I would turn it off on  
both the PC and the Sun (which is a dual-processor Sparc, but only  
450MHz, and enormously slower in X than I am comfortable with since I  
installed Solaris 10 on it).

--Robert