contextview themeing: plasmification?

[Jeff Mitchell]

On Saturday 07 July 2007, Leo Franchi wrote:
> note to all: my amarok was unusably slow, which was a reason for my desire
> to change,  but it runs WAAY faster in a native kde4 environment (nested
> Xephyr) rather than in kde3 as i was testing. so, the speed issue is more
> moot than i thought.
>
> leo
>
> p.s. if you're not running it in a full kde4 environment, i suggest you
> try, plasma + amarok +everything else is much much faster

Does plasma use X11-specific stuff?  How portable is it?  Because if it's not 
portable we'll have to have plasma-less code too to handle Mac and Windows 
environments.

--Jeff