Alien widgets and flickering

[David Faure]

On Monday 17 March 2008, Louai Al-Khanji wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Monday 17 March 2008, Louai Al-Khanji wrote:
> >  > Hi all,
> >  ...
> >
> > > The other solution is to throw away the advantages of alien widgets and
> >  > disable them in applications where native widgets are used.
> >
> >  I have no idea how many applications this are, but if it's only a few, then
> >  this seems like the obvious solution to me.
> >
> >  Alex
> >
> 
> There aren't very many, and I think this is the obviously right choice
> as well. Does anyone object to this patch to systemsettings then? If
> not, I will apply it in a few days.

But the real question IMHO is: why is the winId needed by systemsettings?

I'm not against the patch, but it should be fully justified, like "systemsettings needs native
widgets because <xyz>".

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