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 It is light-weight and independent with a focus on simply stacking windows well
 and rendering some window decorations. It takes a no-bling/frills approach and
-says no to features such as icons (except window buttons), animations,
-decorative gradients and any other options not required to reasonably render
-common themes. It relies on clients for panels, screenshots, wallpapers and so
-on to create a full desktop environment.
+says no to features such as animations.  It relies on clients for panels,
+screenshots, wallpapers and so on to create a full desktop environment.
 
 Labwc tries to stay in keeping with [wlroots] and [sway] in terms of general
 approach and coding style.