RE: Themes

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Loban Amaan Rahman [mailto:loban@enigma.caltech.edu]
> Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 3:03 PM
> To: gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Themes
> 
> > > Pixmap themes are slow because the computer has to 
> coninually do real-time
> > > transformations to the pixmaps. For example, as the 
> progress bar goes
> > > up, the "progress-bar" pixmap is stretched to reflect 
> this. Hence, themes
> > > that consist of A LOT of pixmaps get really slow down 
> your machine.
> > 
> > Is there any way to load them in as pixmaps and then 
> transform them to a
> > differnt kind of data once loaded?  I would imagine that a 
> lot of new
> > users will choose one of the "pretty" themes and find GNOME
> > horribly slow.  While we all know it's the theme's fault, they  
> don't.  They just
> > see GNOME as slow and bulky.  Maybe a small program that 
> would change
> > the format of the theme once it's on the system?  It seems this
> > is a real problem, because all the solutions that I've seen boil 
> down to: use
> > a different theme, get over it.
> 
> It's not the format. It'll be slow whether jpegs, xpms, etc 
> are used. What
> slows it down is the "image transformations" that the 
> computer must do.
> Your mileage in different themes will very. Some have large 
> pixmaps and so
> are sloooow, others aren't. 

How do non-pixmap themes accompilsh the same types of things?
	Greg

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