Re: GTK+ themes on ARM linux - Performance issues

["Diego A. Fons" <diegofons apexar com>]

Harinandan S wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Diego A. Fons <diegofons apexar com 
> <mailto:diegofons apexar com>> wrote:
>
>     Harinandan S wrote:
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>         Hi All,
>          I tried using themes in GTK+ by installing one of the theme
>         engine. I found that its performance is quite bad on ARM. Has
>         anyone used themes with GTK+ on embedded ARM linux platform?
>         I tried a few but the time taken to draw widgets was way too
>         much compared to the one without themes. I use GTK+ 2.12.2 on
>         DirectFB 1.1.1
>
>         -- 
>         Regards,
>         Harinandan S
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>     Hi,
>
>     I was dealing with themes on ARM. I've tested the default theme, i
>     mean the pixman engine and the Clearlooks theme, both were a bit
>     slow. I'm also was using DirectFB. Now i'm using X with a fully
>     custom theme made with pixmap engine and rc files and performance
>     is *much* better.
>     I don't know if it is what you are looking for, I think the
>     problem is not the theme (or theme engine), I think the problem is
>     DirectFB.
>
>  
> Are you using X on ARM?
>  
> I'm not sure how DirectFB can behave differently for default 
> (Rayleigh) theme and others.It may be slow when using themes. 
>  
> Is there any light theme which can just change the shapes of button, 
> textboxes, comboboxes to rounded rectangles?
I'm using the pixmap engine and changing the shape of the buttons 
modifying the RC file (this file can be found as .gtkrc-2.0 in the 
user's home directory or somewhere en /usr, i don't remember).
That's the way i'm customizing my own theme.
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>     Regards,
>     Diego A. Fons.
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> --
> Regards,
> Harinandan S 

Regards,
Diego A. Fons.