+1 for removing it. It was only added in Qt 5 on Lars’ request to solve some very specific usecase that nobody remembers anymore. It has no future.
- Eirik Aa. Confidential From: Development <[email protected]> on behalf of Thiago Macieira <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, 25 October 2025 at 18:42 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Development] Enabling xcb-native-painting feature in CI On Saturday, 25 October 2025 08:59:40 Pacific Daylight Time Albert Astals Cid wrote: > Removing it was going to be my initial suggestion, but after speaking to the > opensuse packagers it seems there is some use for it > > https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbugzilla.opensuse.org%2Fshow_bug.cgi%3Fid%3D1214915&data=05%7C02%7C%7C8fb6825610764d67cd8e08de13e58746%7C20d0b167794d448a9d01aaeccc1124ac%7C0%7C0%7C638970073737388485%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=c67q4ycfU6Qc83H2589NUUl6QYMzQ%2Fnk%2BBAgwevn12k%3D&reserved=0<https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1214915> > > Yes, i know the bug mentions qt5 but i would assume it potentially applies > for qt6 too. The problem is that it's dangerous, as it seems no one is building this and testing it. The only changes to it since it was revived in 2017 appear to be build and issue fixes. I suppose that if anyone reported issues with it in JIRA, we wouldn't be able to fix and would close the bug report as "you've used an experimental feature, you accepted the risk" -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Principal Engineer - Intel Data Center Group
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