Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] 0.10.3 release later this week?

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From: "Graham Bloice" <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 11:33:10 +0100
> Personally I now always build with GTK2 (with the *new* gtk-wimp
> 0.5.4) and
> with ENABLE_LIBETHEREAL=USE and everything works smoothly. The installer
> then is only 7 MB in size (shared libethereal, no GTK1).
>
> Before we release 0.10.4 I'd *really* like that we put the new gtk-wimp in
> the Win32 distribution (this requires an edit to the top-level
> Makefile.nmake too) and upload it to the Ethereal web site.
>

I did try using gtk-wimp on an NT4 system and got a command prompt with tons
of entries such as:

'Couldn't load font "MS Sans Serif 8" falling back to "Sans 8"'

There were many, many entries when opening menu's etc, that took a lot of
CPU cycles (100% CPU for > 5 seconds when opening the Edit | Preferences
menu on a PII 400).  Removing the gtk-wimp stuff fixed this.

In the light of this I think that the installer shouldn't install the
gtk-wimp stuff on NT4.  Haven't tried W2K.

Regards

Graham Bloice