[Digikam-devel] OpenGL support?

[Andi Clemens]

Well it is faster on my machine but maybe because I disabled marble completely 
(I can't compile it since 2 days so I turned the support off). So maybe the 
slowness here is no openGL but a marble issue.

Andi

On Saturday 26 July 2008 14:51:54 Mikolaj Machowski wrote:
> Dnia Saturday 26 of July 2008, Gilles Caulier napisał:
> > 2008/7/26 Mikolaj Machowski <mikmach at wp.pl>:
> > > Dnia Saturday 26 of July 2008, Gilles Caulier napisał:
> > >> No idea. the only parts witch use OpenGL are 2 kipi-plugins
> > >> (slideshow and imageviewer). But for both opengl is only intialized
> > >> when plugins are started.
> > >
> > > I think this is just copy'n'paste from global cmake files where OpenGL
> > > is desired for Plasma and KWin. And I admit it has its uses there.
> > >
> > >> ... or perhaps something happen in Qt core when opengl is used...
> > >>
> > >> Other question is about marble. I don't know if opengl is used here.
> > >
> > > Yes. OpenGL is used to accelerate rendering of globe and
> > > transformations.
> >
> > You want mean that OPenGL can be used to accelerate. Here OPenGL is
> > disable and marble wrok very well...
>
> True. On my machine (pretty old, over 6 years now) I didn't spot any
> differences in working of Marble widget - the same slowness ;)
>
> Overall with OpenGL disabled (thanks Andi!) I didn't notice major
> speed up when digiKam. Maybe little faster. With testing collection
> (2000 images grouped in several big folders) 0.10 feels faster than 0.9
> but this collection has much smaller database in elements.
>
> m.
>
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