Review Request: Add support for building libplasma with GLES2

[Jammy Zhou]

Hi Macro,

I have updated the patch to remove direct OpenGL dependency for libplasma.
Could you please review the patch? (It seems that my mails to kde-core-devel
list were moderated by the server, so I send mail directly to you here)

Regards,
Jammy

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 24 February 2011, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > >
> > >     I also considered to remove glClear in GLApplet, but I'm not sure
> if
> > >     it will cause some regressions, so I prepared this change.
> > >
> > >     Anyway, waiting for inputs from plasma-devs to make final decision.
> > >
> > > what's GLApplet originally used for?
> >
> > It allows to write a Plasmoid which can use OpenGL. Apparently there is
> no
> > interest in doing so
>
> opengl on qgraphicsview is so horribly slow that i don't see it going
> anywhere, yeah
>
> > > And if GLApplet is really obsolete, maybe we'd better retire it to
> remove
> > > the dependency of libplasma on libGL. :)
> >
> > Yeah that would be nice. We cannot remove the class altogether, as that
> > would break the ABI, but what should be done is deprecate it and add it
> to
> > the list for removal in libplasma2. To get it free of OpenGL removing the
> > glClear should be enough.
>
> if it's marked as deprecated, the mobile profile would have it already
> removed
> and that's good ;)
>
> Cheers,
> Marco Martin
>
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