Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] RFC: Prefer GTK2 over GTK1 as default

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 23:29:54 +0100
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 10:19:10PM +0100, Olivier Abad wrote:
> Guy's change to remove column autoresize really helped gtk2 performance.
> Ethereal with GTK+ v2 is now almost as fast as with GTK+ v1.2 even on
> large captures.

Good. Maybe it is time to prefer gtk2 over gtk1 instead of vice versa?
That would mean changing --enable-gtk2 into --disable-gtk2. In case
gtk2 is missing gtk1 should still be used of course.

Opinions?
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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