GNOME speed-up

[Hannes Mayer]

Kent Emia wrote:
> 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..

I'm not sure, but I suppose so. Less graphics details usually lead
to less memory consumption...

Cheers,
Hannes.