Re: [arch-general] qt applications over ssh tunnel: very slow redrawing

On 5 March 2012 20:21, Jarek Sedlacek <JarekSedlacek@gmail.com> wrote:

That may increase the performance, but doesn't explain why GTK apps are so much faster.

Thanks, Jarek Sedlacek

My guess is that it's because Qt themes use lots of gradients which are probably transferred as a bitmap, while GTK themes doesn't use such fancy stuff much. Lukas