On 19/05/2010 11:28 AM, Julien Lavergne wrote: > Hi, > > Lubuntu is designed for very low hardware specs, including very old and > unusual graphic chipsets. So every bits which increase the CPU or memory > usage need to be useful. > I'm not an expert of the gtk engine, but could you point me the advances > of the cairo-based gtk engines ? > > Thanks. > > Best regards, > Julien Lavergne > > Le samedi 08 mai 2010 à 10:00 -0600, Shawn Thompson a écrit : > >> For Lubuntu, I know we're trying to make it light but elegant, which led >> me to think of an idea; how well do Cairo-based GTK engines run on the >> kind of computers we're aiming at with Lubuntu? I had an idea of maybe >> using a lighter GTK engine for the theme, although right now the theme >> I'm working on for Lubuntu is a modification of the Radiance theme from >> the main Gnome version, and I'm aiming for a kind of icy/frost-type look. >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> p.s. (and yes, I am the Viper550 from back in the day, had to switch my >> email address due to a change of ISP/province/etc) >> >> > > > The cairo-based engines take advantage of the cairo rendering engine, a vector-based 2D graphics library that can support hardware acceleration. However, it is said Cairo is now built-in on GTK as of 2005, so I'm starting to not see much of a difference.
For my GTK theme, I ended up using default "gummy" Clearlooks with Industrial's tabs... -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
