Indeed, at this point it’s fair to say that Qt is not for projects that heavily depend on X11 remoting over low bandwidth.
This can be removed. Volker > On 27 Oct 2025, at 10:23, Lars Knoll via Development > <[email protected]> wrote: > > We re-added back for a specific large customer at that time, who was using > Qt/X11 over low bandwidth connections and where the image based painting was > not performing well enough. > > It's a long time ago, so I don't quite remember who the customer was. But I > doubt that they still have the same problem today, so I would also go for > removing it. > > Cheers, > Lars > >> On 27 Oct 2025, at 09:56, Eirik Aavitsland via Development >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> +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://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 >> -- >> Development mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development > > -- > Development mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development -- Development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
