preformance issues with oxygen style and window decoration

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 09:04:40PM +0100, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> At FOSDEM I talked with Ade and he said that there are some things in
> plasma/style/window decorations which make KDE4 via remote X, e.g. on
> thin clients, more or less unusable.
>
probably

> The issue is gradients and the alpha channel, which are not (not
> widely or not at all ?) supported via remote X.
> 
errm ... the X server is exactly the same. it just can't do direct
rendering and everything goes through a relatively thin and rather
latency-afflicted channel.