removing themes

[Brett Alton]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Jeff <web.kiddo at free.fr> wrote:
> I'd like to voice my user opinion on the matter.
>
> I use mist, even though it is fugly compared to Clearlooks, because it is
> BLAZINGLY fast. The two are not even in the same "fruit family" comparing
> them, especially if you are running at 1920x1200 and dealing with webpages.
> For example, have, say, 30-50 tabs open in epiphany-gecko (or Firefox, for
> that matter, but Ephy is faster for switching tabs already, since you can
> use the mouse wheel scroll). With mist, tab switches are instantaneous, with
> Clearlooks, it can take a second or so.
>
> Same goes for painting windows (ex: switching workspaces with metacity).
>
> Or scrolling webpages (especially gmail).
>
> Mist makes a lot of sense on those
> not-quadcore-with-a-512mb-intel-video-card scenarios, perhaps the other
> gnome themes have their special usefulness in that regard too.
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I think the point of their argument is that you can install that from
apt if you need it, but it shouldn't be installed by default for
aesthetics and size reasons.

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Brett Alton
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