Re: Re-inventing Metatheme

[Daniel Borgmann <daniel liebesgedichte net>]

On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 13:15, Bill Haneman wrote:
> > But just looking at each individual theme type switching  itself....
> > This is on my laptop (500 MHz right now since I'm on battery):
> > 
> >   Window border, switch Wonderland -> Crux: < 1 sec
> >   Control, switch Default -> PrettyOkayish: < 1 sec
> >   Nautilus, switch Crux -> Eazel          : 3.5 sec
> 
> On my laptop it seems a little slower.. but if you add these up, plus
> background and font, the total time does exceed the rule-of-thumb for
> instant-apply, which I believe it <= 1 sec.

This also depends very much on the theme and number of open windows.
Switching to limebubble with a lot of open calculators takes 10 seconds
on my P3 1000. Now add a few other themechanges to this and it will
become horrible slow. Also there is a danger of a broken theme. I once
had a theme that would simply crash... I know this shouldn't happen, but
what happens if it does? So I'm all in favor of a preview and apply
button. Wouldn't it be possible to get a dynamically generated preview
instead of a screenshot? Similar to what KDE, Windows, etc do. This
could also probably catch broken themes (taking down the capplet instead
of all open applications).

- Daniel