From kde-core-devel  Mon Oct 01 11:12:20 2007
From: Dirk Mueller <mueller () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:12:20 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Will we support Thin Client computing well with KDE4? (was:
Message-Id: <200710011312.20164.mueller () kde ! org>
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On Sunday, 16. September 2007, Jos Poortvliet wrote:

> Sorry, that's a bit unfair, but we all KNOW changing the whole window
> on window switch is painful. So what do we do? We can't change the
> windowdecoration's colour, and only greying out text and buttons might
> be to subtle. Is there no way to change the window's look, without
> doing heavy I/O or cpu stuff?!?

One solution would be to let kwin do the effect via compositing. Compositing 
can run locally, so network I/O is minimal. 

Greetings,
Dirk