On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraess...@kde.org> wrote: > On Saturday 31 December 2011 12:10:37 Shaun Reich wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraess...@kde.org> wrote: >> > On Thursday 29 December 2011 11:21:36 Justin L. Boss wrote: >> > Personally I am not a big fan of having animations which would require >> > OpenGL in the background. Most of the time the background is not visible, >> > it requires resources and puts load on the compositor which has to update >> > the scene although nothing changes (full repaints are most expensive). >> > >> > May I ask why you want to use OpenGL? >> >> Probably because QPainter is dog slow. > using OpenGL doesn't make it faster if you need QPainter to render to the > background ;-)
Aaw, I was hoping using OGL/qml and what not would remove the need to go through QPainter at all. If only... > So unless our wallpapers learn to not redraw the areas which are not visible > anyway (which is probably impossible to know for the wallpaper), I am not a > fan of animated wallpapers in general. > > Just for the record: using always animated wallpapers should perform better > thanks to optimizations in 4.8. Cools. -- Shaun Reich, KDE Software Developer (kde.org) _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
