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GTK Theme Speed Trials


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Do different themes slow down your desktop? If you're on a slower machine should you use a faster theme? Even on a fast machine, pretty pixels can mean a laggy desktop.

Well here's a place to post the relative speeds of your favourite themes using the program 'gtkperf' as measuring tool. Include the timing of a standard theme (perhaps Clearlooks) to use as a comparison.

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 First List

 
 by marcaemus on: Oct 31 2010
 
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Here's my first list. Timings were taken using gtkperf running 100 rounds under ScrotWM. Timings were slightly slower under GNOME.

Engines with their standard theme:
Bluecurve: 5.13
Raleigh: 5.17
HiContrast: 5.17
ThinIce: 5.17
HiContrast: 5.17
Redmond: 5.17
Mist: 5.20
Glider: 5.22
Xfce: 5.30
Crux: 5.35
Industrial: 5.51
MurrinaVerde: 5.64
Nodoka: 5.68
Aurora: 5.88
Clearlooks: 6.15
Equinox: 6.42
Candido: 8.36
QtCurve: 5.46 - 29.42(!)
MurrineVerdeOlivo was used for Murrine engine and was average for the simpler murrine themes. QtCurve obviously depends on which KDE theme is set.

Various random themes:
Nodoka-Squared: 5.14
Shiki-Brave: 5.53
devART: 5.79
elementary: 5.91
Dust Cold: 5.97
Dusk-v3: 8.14
Zuki Blues: 8.25
deviantArt: 11.57


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 Re: First List

 
 by Padster on: Oct 31 2010
 
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what's the devART theme?
my deviantArt theme takes a long time to load? oh, window borders or gtk?
i use pixmaps for my themes, maybe that's why... if you want a laggy one try my sketchy theme ^^


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 Re: Re: First List

 
 by marcaemus on: Oct 31 2010
 
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I was prompted to write this because of some claims made by other designers and because its something I've paid attention to for a time. Its not meant to single out anyone. Those are just some of the themes I have running at present and yours is one of them.


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 Re: Re: Re: First List

 
 by Padster on: Oct 31 2010
 
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i know what you mean, but what's devART and deviantArt? i think i'll test my sketchy theme just to see how long ^^ it has huge pixmaps (1000+)


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 Re: Re: Re: Re: First List

 
 by marcaemus on: Oct 31 2010
 
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deviantArt is your theme - devART is the theme I mentioned in comments on your deviantArt-Metacity page. Do your best with those pixmaps but 29 from QtCurve will be hard to beat. ;)


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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: First List

 
 by Padster on: Oct 31 2010
 
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aww, on my good pc it said 15.07, i'll try it on my crappy one ^^


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 First List Revised

 
 by marcaemus on: Oct 31 2010
 
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Just installed a new kernel (2.6.35.4) and out of curiosity re-ran the tests exactly as before. There seems to be a noticable difference.

Bluecurve: 4.93
Raleigh: 4.97
HiContrast: 4.93
ThinIce: 4.93
Redmond: 5.00
Mist: 4.96
Glider: 5.06
Xfce: 5.08
Crux: 5.22
Industrial: 5.85
MurrinaVerde: 5.53
Nodoka: 6.02
Aurora: 5.76
Clearlooks: 6.13
Equinox: 6.22
Candido: 7.71

Nodoka-Squared: 5.00
Shiki-Brave: 5.93
devART: 6.01
elementary: 6.08
Dust Cold: 5.78
Dusk-v3: 8.21
Zuki Blues: 8.16
deviantArt: 10.63


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 Re: First List Revised

 
 by Padster on: Oct 31 2010
 
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faster now? i just ran it on sketchy on my crappy pc. it got 56.85!


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 Re: Re: First List Revised

 
 by marcaemus on: Nov 1 2010
 
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Impressive.


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 Re: Re: Re: First List Revised

 
 by Padster on: Nov 1 2010
 
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^^ yeah...


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 Wow. Nice idea....

 
 by Dart00 on: Oct 31 2010
 
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I wonder how the Win2-7 Pack stacks up against my other themes? Nice idea! :) Im going to go test....

http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Win2-7+Pack?content=113264


U.E.L.G Member: http://gnome-look.org/groups/?id=404
Turbo-Secure: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=133380
Win2-7 Pack:http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Win2-7+Pack?content=113264

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 Comparison

 
 by ceebeebg on: Nov 3 2010
 
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GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Wed Nov 3 21:59:00 2010

GtkEntry - time: 0.02
GtkComboBox - time: 0.93
GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 0.77
GtkSpinButton - time: 0.10
GtkProgressBar - time: 0.09
GtkToggleButton - time: 0.08
GtkCheckButton - time: 0.06
GtkRadioButton - time: 0.07
GtkTextView - Add text - time: 0.40
GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 0.14
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time: 0.26
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 0.51
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 0.26
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time: 0.04
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Total time: 3.73


THese are the results for my theme "Cold" which uses murrine and equinox engines.

Test it on your box and see how your own results compare.
The fastest theme I have came across is a clear looks theme "Shiki Black" by Fred which I clocked at 2.76


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 Re: Comparison

 
 by Padster on: Nov 4 2010
 
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GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Wed Nov 3 19:03:17 2010

GtkEntry - time: 0.05
GtkComboBox - time: 3.65
GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 3.35
GtkSpinButton - time: 0.22
GtkProgressBar - time: 0.21
GtkToggleButton - time: 0.21
GtkCheckButton - time: 0.13
GtkRadioButton - time: 0.20
GtkTextView - Add text - time: 0.66
GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 0.43
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time: 0.53
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 1.24
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 0.69
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time: 0.13
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Total time: 11.70


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 Re: Comparison

 
 by marcaemus on: Nov 4 2010
 
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You've got a faster machine than me. I get:

Cold: 9.18
Shiki-JetBlack: 5.89

using the same test conditions as previously.


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 Re: Re: Comparison

 
 by ceebeebg on: Nov 4 2010
 
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Crazy difference in results there and I'm running these in a virtual machine...
My old linux dedicated box gives similar results though-
so I think so far that the numbers will vary from machine to machine...


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 Re: Re: Re: Comparison

 
 by marcaemus on: Nov 4 2010
 
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Yep. That's why I suggested in the group description to include the timing of a standard theme such as clearlooks so that people can judge the speed relative to that.

I know that these speeds are not overly important in real usage but even on this fast P4 I notice some pixmap themes especially feel heavy and are slower. This becomes even worse when running GTK apps in KDE.


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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Comparison

 
 by ceebeebg on: Nov 5 2010
 
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Ah I see what you mean - My previous thoughts on this amount to it's some sort of measuring stick on the same test machine but hardware and configuration dictate performance - different figures with different test machines...


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 Second List

 
 by marcaemus on: Nov 11 2010
 
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Here is a list of a few themes I've look at this week. Same test conditions as before.

Reference:
Clearlooks 6.13

Themes:
Candido-Watermark: 4.97
Nimbus: 5.27
Murrina X3: 5.61
Nodoka Dust Cold: 5.96
Clearlooks-UFO: 6.17
Gizmo: 9.57
Orta: 11.86
Plastic V3.4: 11.95


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 Just a curiosity - C flags

 
 by marcaemus on: Feb 17 2011
 
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Rebuilt gtk recently with less clever compiler flags. Here's the result:

THEME OLD NEW
Bluecurve: 4.93 4.85
Raleigh: 4.97 4.90
ThinIce: 4.93 4.90
Redmond: 5.00 4.94
Mist: 4.96 4.90
Glider: 5.06 4.92
Industrial: 5.85 5.73
MurrinaVerde: 5.53 5.49
Nodoka: 6.02 6.01
Aurora: 5.76 6.00
Clearlooks: 6.13 6.06
Equinox: 6.22 6.33
Nodoka-Squared: 5.00 5.07
Shiki-Brave: 5.93 5.90
elementary: 6.08 5.90
Dust Cold: 5.78 5.73
Zuki Blues: 8.16 8.02

Again, these are just some of the themes that I currently use and not a reflection on an individual theme itself.


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 Re: Just a curiosity - C flags

 
 by Karmel on: Feb 18 2011
 
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OK, and now, if you are working with ".png's" based theme, save every single ".png" file with minimal compression ratio.

Most of image editors have max compression ratio set as default. Save it with minimal compression and compare results: max compression vs. minimal compression.

See differenties?

8)


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 Re: Re: Just a curiosity - C flags

 
 by marcaemus on: Feb 19 2011
 
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Well, I've seen some pretty slow pixmap themes. I notice the slowness most with the file selector or file-list in Transmission - like scrolling through glue.

Even KDE4's quicker ;P


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 Re: Re: Re: Just a curiosity - C flags

 
 by Karmel on: Feb 20 2011
 
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This is related to over-bloated pics included into those themes. I think.

Hi-resolution (how it sounds ;) theme images also needs more "juice" for scaling (interpolation).

Anyway, I've noted about 0,2 sec difference between minimal compression ratio and max compression ratio (via full GtkPerf test). In plus, of course; in conjunction to my machine.

This 0,2 sec for full test - maybe it's not so much, and on higher specs PC's this obtained results will be marginal, but I assume - why operating system have to be additionally charged from theme png's decompression?

Those 0,2 sec - Is it worth? - Why not? 8)

Those GtkPerf tests are strongly subjective, but I think, that ThinIce theme engine is the fastest from all of them - no matter we are use #F8F8F8 code or pics.

In according to optimization via compilation flags, linker flags or by stripped (removing debug info) - even if some programs are compiled with highest optimization - if L1 processor cache is not enough capacious for the entire code loop - then optimization will be not fully successful or even... redundant. Maybe this is not strongly related to low-level code like the theme engine, but you can't forget about it 8)


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