[ubuntu-art] Re: Before we vote...

[Billy]

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 10:22 +0100, Who wrote:

> >
> >  Problem is, people do use them. Some do prefer an ungy fast, useable,
> > nothing in the way gui. That is why I offered to do thinice, mist, or
> > something for them. Are we just going to remove them and give them pixmap
> > and slow cairo? I don't think so!!! I won't take responsibility in that
> > slaughter! I have spoken for them. Will anyone listen and at least give them
> > the smooth engine. We do not need inexperienced, imature voting for eyecandy
> > not considering the real world. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but it's the
> > reason gnome has lagged in eyecandy for so long. There needs to be a middle
> > ground. Something for both ends on the spectrum, and ubuntulooks is not
> > light and fast, so that can not count for light and fast just because it is
> > an engine. Pixbuff is an engine...is it light? No. Think of everyone before
> > you vote!!!
> 
> I think that the whole point of this exercise is to get some really
> good looking themes in Ubuntu, and while I don't think that procludes
> any Smooth theme, I think it means not packing a huge number of them
> in
> 
> I agree that we _must_ keep a few speedy engines in, which is one of
> the reasons I champion Industrial for inclusion. I had a look at
> http://gtkperf.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=testing&id=1
> which suggests we should really be using cleanice if we want a truly
> performance focussed skin!
> 
> Back at that stage human didn't use Cairo, as far asI remember, which
> probably explains its speed...


I ran some test with gtkperf. Here's the results.........

Simple                        (thinice)                10.77
SandSkater                 (mist)                    11.00
Bluecurve                    (bluecurve)            11.16
Cleanice-Dark                (cleanice)            11.30
Industrial                    (industrial)              11.77
Smooth9Gnome            (smooth)              14.08
Slider                        (smooth)                  16.40
Rezlooks-Gilouche        (rezlooks)            16.47
d3a-eXperience            (experience)           16.47
Glider                        (smooth)                    16.54
Clearlooks-cairo            (clearlooks-cairo)      18.86
Human                        (ubuntulooks)         19.26
Gentle                        (pixbuf)                23.66
eXperience                (experience)         27.41
d3a                        (pixbuf)                    28.56
E17-Gtk                    (pixbuf)                  31.79
Ana                        (svg>pixbuf)            35.67

######d3a comparrison#######
d3a-eXperience            (experience)        16.47
d3a                            (pixbuf)                   28.56
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