Re: Gnome themes and Balsa

[Fernan Aguero <fernan iib unsam edu ar>]

Berend, thanks for your reply. Now everything is clearer to me.

Now, is there an easy way to spot engine vs non-engine themes?

Fernan.

On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:17:47 Berend De Schouwer wrote:
[snip]

> CoolIce is an "engine" theme.  That means the part that draws
> the pictures is written in C, and is optimized for those pictures.
> "engine" themes are usually fast.
> 
> The other themes you mentioned are "pixmap" themes.  They draw
> pictures by using images (PNG or JPEG), and use generic drawing
> routines, so they are usually much slower, and more memory hungry,
> but more flexible.

[snip]

> Any window manager, any window manager theme.  If you want
> maximum speed out of any GTK+ application, I suggest you try
> another "engine" theme, like GTKStep, CoolIce or Xenophobia,
> or run the default theme.


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