Re: Gnome themes and Balsa

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On 2001.01.12 14:01:14 +0000 Fernan Aguero wrote:

[snip]

> 
> I've been using sawfish for some time with theme CoolIce and
> sawfish-theme microGUI. Balsa works OK (scrolling text in the preview
> pane is OK). 
> Yesterday I changed my theme to BeOS (and kept the microGUI sawfish
> theme). Now scrolling in Balsa is slow, and I notice how CPU usage
> increments drastically just by doing PgUp or PgDown. I tried several
> others (eMac, LCARS, LightSpeed) and found that no one gives me speed
> again.
> 
> Is this something that you are aware of?
> What combinations of wm, wm-theme and theme work OK for you?
> 
>

gtk text box basicly sucks with heavy pixmap themes. it afects all apps,
not
just balsa. 
try using one of the brushed themes and then changing to the default theme.

i read a similar mozilla bugreport where with a given theme i forget you 
could actually see the text being redrawn on the input boxes as if you were

using a 1200 baud vt100

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