jo@yee-ha.demon.co.uk writes:

While I see your point, and mostly agree with it, I can understand that some people who spend a lot of time at their conputer may be of the opinion that it may as well be a nice environment to look at, right? Why do people decorate their houses?

Well, that's what X gave you a root window for. With all due respect, <rant>most theming equates more to taking all the door handles off and replacing them with a small button 20cm above the bottom hinge-side corner of the door than giving it a new coat of paint. Yes, I put graphics on my root window (xplanet with cloud maps at home, random web images from a script I wrote at work) and change the colours of various parts of the system. I even skin gkrellm. I don't change the way all controls work every time, though.</rant>

As for spare CPU cycles, I thought everyone was running seti@home these days.. ;)

distributed.net, surely?