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[Ethan Blanton]

Sean Egan spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > and emits a ton of signals for widget
> > resizing/exposing.
> 
> I imagine this is a performance argument? I suspect that an additional
> size-allocate keystroke every 80 or so keystrokes is negligable. Do
> you have reason to suspect otherwise?

Of all of the arguments on this issue, this one I take the most
seriously, actually.  We already run for crap on remote X11 displays,
and widgets resizing will do nothing but make that worse.  Scrolling
is not particularly expensive, so maybe the widgets do something smart
about it, but it's certainly not going to be as cheap as not dancing.
This was one reason I supported retaining a preference to turn off
smooth scroll, as well.

Ethan

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