[Psi-devel] Four outstanding OS X issues (0.11-dev May 22 2007)

[Michail Pishchagin]

On 31.05.2007, at 16:22, Toby Thain wrote:
> On 31-May-07, at 6:22 AM, Michail Pishchagin wrote:
>> On 29.05.2007, at 10:48, Remko Tronçon wrote:
>>>> I meant to say that there is also an unpleasantly high latency on
>>>> keystrokes, probably related.
>>>
>>> Right, now I get what you're talking about. That's indeed the same
>>> problem as what kev said, and it is indeed very annoying. We're  
>>> still
>>> hoping that Trolltech will fix this eventually.
>>
>> This happens in native applications too, but to much lesser extent.
>> So probably there's not much to do except some speed tweaks here and
>> there.
>
> I can only assume you've never used Psi on OS X and therefore never
> experienced the problem. It's not a matter of speed tweaks; it's
> erroneous behaviour. The program is only borderline usable.

I've experienced the problem before. In early Qt4 versions there were  
numerous bugs related to text input on Mac OS X. Sluggish text input  
speed and lost keystrokes. I think I haven't lost keystrokes for a  
long enough time, but slow input speed just happens sometimes (and in  
native applications too), when machine is on heavy load.

> Psi wouldn't be the only Jabber client with a problematic framework -
> look at Coccinella... (for all its quirks, at least Coccinella
> doesn't have this particular issue).

What's your load average when this happens? (One possible way to view  
it is to use 'uptime' console command)

-Michail