[ubuntu-art] freshened metacity theme

Henrik Nilsen Omma henrik at ubuntu.com
Fri Feb 3 11:45:41 GMT 2006


Martin-Éric Racine wrote:

>Unfortunately, all that eyecandy renders very poorly on low-spec
>graphic cards. There is a good reason why the current Metacity theme
>we have is very spartan: it renders well in a variety of situations,
>including on laptops with a small color palette.
>
That's an interesting point. Could you please elaborate? Which themes 
are fine and which are too heavy? Human is OK while clearlooks 2 is too 
slow? Are themes with bitmaps in them faster or slower than those with 
xml-based blending?

Thanks.

- Henrik



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