From kde-core-devel  Mon Oct 01 12:52:19 2007
From: "Jos Poortvliet" <jospoortvliet () gmail ! com>
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:52:19 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Will we support Thin Client computing well with KDE4? (was:
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On 10/1/07, Dirk Mueller <mueller@kde.org> wrote:
> 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.

BUT compositing isn't always available, which is why some oppose that
venue. I think we'll just have to look at this for 4.1...

> Greetings,
> Dirk
>