On 5 March 2012 20:21, Jarek Sedlacek <JarekSedlacek@xxxxxxxxx> 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