[LAD] FLTK vs GTKmm

[David Robillard]

On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 18:31 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 12:10 -0400, David Robillard wrote:
> 
> 
> > Ick!  Using the desktop theme is not bad!  The user chose it for a
> > reason!
> 
> The default GTK+ Theme in the incarnation of Mandriva I have here is
> absolutely stunning and good looking ... But redraws at a crawl when the
> machine is close to full rt-dsp load. Hey, you can even watch how it
> paints the faders in gnome-volume-control from right to left when there
> is no load /at all./ Really, an Atari ST is more responsive.
> 
> Another theme supplied with this dist (La-Ora Grey) looks almost as good
> and works just fine under heavy load. 
> 
> Now tell me again, what was the reason for choosing this theme rather
> than that theme?

... in other words, being able to choose your theme is nice?

Indeed ;)

-dr