Bug#345073: gtk2-engines-clearlooks: option to disable progress bar animation

[Marius Mikucionis]

Package: gtk2-engines-clearlooks
Version: 0.6.2-1
Severity: wishlist

I really like this engine and theme, but it appears that progress bar 
animation hack sucks way too much CPU on my otherwise idle time.
I noticed this when application has several progress bars 
(like gaim logon, firefox page loading).
And I do open many firefox tabs when reading news, so that they load 
until I read one of them.
For my P4-M 2G laptop 6 progress bars is enough to take almost all CPU, 
and this is just idle time, when nothing is really happening.
It is even worse than that: the CPU consumption does not cease 
if the progress bar is not visible (behind other window or in 
inactive desktop).
I looked at "top" and compared the "idle" performance (when I do 
nothing else but watch/read and don't touch anything) of two 
btdownloadgui in Simple theme and Clearlooks theme:
1) in simple theme each btdownloadgui takes about 3-5% and 
Xorg is also about 4%.
2) in Clearlooks theme each btdownloadgui 10-12% and Xorg 11%.
I did not notice any change in other process (without progress bars).

In extreme cases this even interrupts music play.
So now, what I do is "renice" such greedy processes, 
but this does not work for Xorg process and certainly does not help 
conserve the heat and power.

In conclusion: too much animation is a step back for desktop.
I would appreciate any method of turning this feature off.

thanks

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.4-b1
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gtk2-engines-clearlooks depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0                   1.10.3-1   The ATK accessibility toolkit
hi  libc6                         2.3.5-9    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.8.4-2    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.8.9-2    The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.10.1-2   Layout and rendering of internatio

gtk2-engines-clearlooks recommends no packages.

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