Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!inria!mirsa!colas
From: colas@mirsa.inria.fr (Colas NAHABOO)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: UWM network use followup
Message-ID: <148@mirsa.inria.fr>
Date: 21 Mar 89 14:22:15 GMT
References: <8903200443.AA21539@jumbo.pa.dec.com>
Organization: Koala Project -- BULL/INRIA
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From article <8903200443.AA21539@jumbo.pa.dec.com>, by msm@SRC.DEC.COM (Mark S. Manasse):
> 
>> If uwm were to wait for MotionNotify events, you would see window move
>> and resize operations slow to a crawl.  You'll see the same QueryPointer
>> scheme in twm.
> 
> How some people will torture other users of shared resources, just 
> to improve performance by a sixtieth of a second.... 

No! I back up entirely Tom, using MotionNotify events is IMPOSSIBLE for
dragging operation. It might work locally on your machine, with a
client/server connection via shared memory, but will crawl via the network.

Moreover, it's the USER that you are torturing if you cannot provide him
with immediate feedback. Better torture your application code!

PS: on my first try, using MotionNotify in GWM resulted in very funny
effects, but it was in no way usable.

Colas NAHABOO        -- colas@mirsa.inria.fr
BULL Research FRANCE -- Koala Project -- GWM X11 Window Manager