Re: Need help profiling kreversi

2011-08-04 Thread Benoit Jacob
2011/7/31 Dominik Raddatz : > Where can I see which compiler options were actually being used for which > file? VERBOSE=1 make 2>&1 | tee logfile Benoit >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Re: Need help profiling kreversi

2011-08-03 Thread Benoit Jacob
Profiling is a solved problem on recent linux versions, thanks to the new 'perf' profiler. Depending on your distro it could be provided by a package named 'linux-tools' or some such. It improved a lot in recent versions but as of linux 2.6.38 it's state-of-the-art. To use it: 1. start kreversi,

Re: plans for a free, OpenGL-based equivalent to Direct2D ?

2011-04-26 Thread Benoit Jacob
is mostly self-contained with very few Mozilla-specific dependencies. Benoit 2010/12/14 Benoit Jacob : > Hi, > > I would like to know if the KDE or Qt community has plans for a free > OpenGL-based equivalent to Direct2D (see explanation below)? And if > there is a chance that I could

Re: plans for a free, OpenGL-based equivalent to Direct2D ?

2010-12-14 Thread Benoit Jacob
2010/12/14 Aaron J. Seigo : > On Tuesday, December 14, 2010, Benoit Jacob wrote: >> Different users have different priorities. For example, Gecko wants >> pixel-exact rendering > > risking being "pedantic" ... this isn't actually true. it's true most

Re: plans for a free, OpenGL-based equivalent to Direct2D ?

2010-12-14 Thread Benoit Jacob
2010/12/14 Aaron J. Seigo : > On Tuesday, December 14, 2010, Benoit Jacob wrote: >> 2010/12/14 Aaron J. Seigo : >> > On Tuesday, December 14, 2010, Benoit Jacob wrote: >> >> These days, the needs of web engines are easily as complex as those of >> >>

Re: plans for a free, OpenGL-based equivalent to Direct2D ?

2010-12-14 Thread Benoit Jacob
2010/12/14 Aaron J. Seigo : > On Tuesday, December 14, 2010, Benoit Jacob wrote: >> These days, the needs of web engines are easily as complex as those of >> complex games: between /2d, css, and svg, there's plenty of >> ways that a web page can be a complex 2d game :-

Re: plans for a free, OpenGL-based equivalent to Direct2D ?

2010-12-14 Thread Benoit Jacob
2010/12/14 Aaron J. Seigo : > On Tuesday, December 14, 2010, Thiago Macieira wrote: >> The QML Scene Graph intends to do this, but it's only inteded for QML work. > > imho: > > having looked a bit at the QML Scene Graph, i really do think it would be > tremendously great to work towards making it a

Re: plans for a free, OpenGL-based equivalent to Direct2D ?

2010-12-14 Thread Benoit Jacob
2010/12/14 Thiago Macieira : > On Tuesday, 14 de December de 2010 09:01:05 Benoit Jacob wrote: >> We target every OpenGL ES 2 device. I am not aware of an OpenVG >> implementation that will run (and be well hardware-accelerated) >> everywhere there is a OpenGL ES 2 implemetati

Re: plans for a free, OpenGL-based equivalent to Direct2D ?

2010-12-14 Thread Benoit Jacob
2010/12/14 Thiago Macieira : > On Tuesday, 14 de December de 2010 07:27:47 Benoit Jacob wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I would like to know if the KDE or Qt community has plans for a free >> OpenGL-based equivalent to Direct2D (see explanation below)? And if >> there

plans for a free, OpenGL-based equivalent to Direct2D ?

2010-12-13 Thread Benoit Jacob
Hi, I would like to know if the KDE or Qt community has plans for a free OpenGL-based equivalent to Direct2D (see explanation below)? And if there is a chance that I could get you interested in that. We at Mozilla are very interested in that and are considering the possibility of launching such a

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-08 Thread Benoit Jacob
2010/12/7 Andreas Pakulat : > On 07.12.10 14:28:57, Benoit Jacob wrote: >> If I want to get a list of all KDE crashes that happened in libGL.so*, >> how do I go about that? > > Thats more a problem of the tool we're using to track bugs, there's no > way to

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-08 Thread Benoit Jacob
2010/12/8 Kevin Ottens : >> For smaller commits, it seems reasonable to demand that they don't cause >> regressions. For larger commits, it won't always be possible to test >> sufficiently for regressions before committing - there may be too many >> affected apps if a change is made in the librarie

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-08 Thread Benoit Jacob
2010/12/7 Aaron J. Seigo : >> * >> 2. Can one tell volunteers contributors what they should be working >> on? (KDE: no, Mozilla: yes) > > a nice bit of philosophy. imho: > > should we communicate what is needed to be worked on? yes. > should we make it "cool" to work on what is needed by offeri

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-07 Thread Benoit Jacob
2010/12/7 Stephen Kelly : > Benoit Jacob wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I would like to share some hopefully interesting thoughts, from a >> comparison of a few things in KDE and in Mozilla, in the hope that it >> helps KDE borrow good ideas from elsewhere. >>

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-07 Thread Benoit Jacob
2010/12/7 Thiago Macieira : > On Tuesday, 7 de December de 2010 21:53:57 Benoit Jacob wrote: >> 2010/12/7 Thiago Macieira : >> > How are you going to properly find the stack without debug symbols? >> > >> > Imagine one frame that didn't keep the fram

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-07 Thread Benoit Jacob
2010/12/7 Thiago Macieira : > On Tuesday, 7 de December de 2010 21:13:53 Benoit Jacob wrote: >> 2010/12/7 Thiago Macieira : >> > On Tuesday, 7 de December de 2010 20:28:57 Benoit Jacob wrote: >> >> So do crash reports now automatically land in a database that'

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-07 Thread Benoit Jacob
2010/12/7 Benoit Jacob : > 2010/12/7 Thiago Macieira : >> On Tuesday, 7 de December de 2010 20:28:57 Benoit Jacob wrote: >>> So do crash reports now automatically land in a database that's easy >>> to do queries on? (See the web interface provided by Socorro) >&g

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-07 Thread Benoit Jacob
2010/12/7 Thiago Macieira : > On Tuesday, 7 de December de 2010 20:28:57 Benoit Jacob wrote: >> So do crash reports now automatically land in a database that's easy >> to do queries on? (See the web interface provided by Socorro) >> >> If I want to get a list of

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-07 Thread Benoit Jacob
2010/12/7 Andreas Pakulat : > On 07.12.10 11:22:47, Benoit Jacob wrote: >> * >> 4. Crash reports handling (KDE: poor, Mozilla: good) >>  * Have a look at Socorro, Mozilla's crash report tool: > > Your info is outdated I think, try out a KDE 4.5 app crashing. Dr

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-07 Thread Benoit Jacob
> 4. Crash reports handling (KDE: poor, Mozilla: good) To be clear, I know about Dr Konqi but afaics it relies on the user to install debug symbols by himself, that's unrealistic. The symbols lookup needs to be done server-side if you want this to work on a large scale with non-technical users. B

Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-07 Thread Benoit Jacob
Hi, I would like to share some hopefully interesting thoughts, from a comparison of a few things in KDE and in Mozilla, in the hope that it helps KDE borrow good ideas from elsewhere. * 1. Issue tracker (Mozilla) vs. Mailing lists (KDE). KDE uses a Mailing list for most its development discu