Re:The end of the nice GTK button
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday March 25, 2022 @08:30AM
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Computers are ludicrously fast nowadays. Games are capable of doing a whole lot of shit in <16ms consistently while responding to user input, so I don't buy this "it's doing a lot!" argument, it is coded badly.
I imagine the hold up is that it is connecting to an external service.
Some games also connect to an external service.
Why couldn’t that be done in a separate thread?
Re:The end of the nice GTK button
by totalkrill on Friday March 25, 2022 @07:22AM
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Just you wait until they want to be able to run apps inside of it. Because they probably will want to do that. Unfortunately
They've sort of already tried that, with animated smart tiles that were used by apps on Windows Phone and Win8. Not something I've seen recently, not sure if that is due to it being deprecated of if people just aren't using it on desktop as the menu is never visible for any considerable length of time.
Because it is trying to be all things to all people: including supporting sponsored content and integrating with any fancy new/copied idea that the company is pushing (which may be quietly deprecated in the next major revision, but the hooks left adding abstraction load to everything else so that the few who actually found it useful don't complain).