Comment 7 for bug 1070760

Some performance enhancements have been implemented in trunk and I have made a build of the current trunk available in our snapshots PPA. You might want to give it a try:
https://launchpad.net/~onboard/+archive/snapshots

Concerning the default theme: Onboard offers a facility to override the hardcoded default values by giving it other values in a specific file. Please have a look at the onboard-defaults.conf.example file also available in the source code package of Onboard for details.