Colors - Performance impact of non-equal inactive and active palettes

[Matthew Woehlke]

Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Monday 03 December 2007, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> (maybe even 'just the selection' if that is possible). But that's Qt 4.4
>> stuff.
> 
> well, probably 4.5 at this point unless it gets considered to be a bug fix 
> (feature freeze has come and gone iirc) .. but yes, since getting this right 
> is probably future qt work, maybe this should be future kde work as well.
> 
> as you note, kde3 is the same here so it's not a regression for kde. we can 
> and should catch up with others, but i think we have enough other cool stuff 
> that this is not a critical feature and it would be a crying shame to have 
> such an impact on our performance just to toggle one set of colours. it just 
> isn't worth it.

I just fear that if the default is off, it will stay off :-(. I've been 
there.

But, as I say, making it depend on the system would be OK, that way 
modern systems that can handle the load aren't "penalized". Thoughts?

-- 
Matthew
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