GNOME speed-up

[Kent Emia]

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 01:54, Hannes Mayer wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> Yesterday I installed debian sarge (no, I'm NOT dropping FC2, I just
> love bleeding edge stuff ;-) and I recognized that GNOME on the
> P3 450MHz 390MB experimental box was quite fast.
> 
> I always felt that GNOME on FC2 was slightly slow on my P4 1.4GHz 1GB
> production box, so I started to think what might be the cause.
> Just out of curiosity I changed the theme to "Simple" and VOILA!
> GNOME feels much more responsive now!
> Of course the desktop doesn't look as pretty as with RedHat's bluecurve,
> but IMO my desktop doesn't need pixmaps in the window title bar, nor
> 24bit aliased window-icons. It just needs to be fast!
> 
> Just sharing my experience. Maybe it's useful for someone!

thanks for that ... but there are some icon's which i made in the
desktop were gone .. only a footprints were left ..

anyways i will just try to look for it again and reload things 

btw, does this means that if i will be using "Simple" theme i am using
lesser resources such as the memory?? just asking..

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Kent Emia
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