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Topic: Styles Performance, How much difference?

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adssse

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Posted: June 18 2005,01:58

I was wondering how much difference do you think it really makes performance wise between the desktop styles. I believe "minimal" is the best performance wise, but what about "simple" and some of the other styles?

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Posted: June 18 2005,06:24

Can't give any empirical data, but I'd guess there might be a tiny performance hit with gradients, but the main performance factor would be the size of the background image - "minimal" doesn't have one, "simple" has a small centred one, whereas "tree and moon" has a full-screen one. But I doubt John would have let them in if there was much performance hit. And Kent's pretty mindfull of file size.

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mikshaw

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Posted: June 18 2005,15:08

As Rogue Streak said, the background image is probably the only thing that would make a noticeable difference, although if you were using a more recent version of Fluxbox there may be other things that affect cpu and ram usage, such as if you were using transparency, shaped windows, and pixmaps.
I suppose using certain fonts could make a difference as well, though i couldn't say if it would be noticeable.

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