[kde-solaris] oxygen style needs xrender?

Girish Ramakrishnan girish at forwardbias.in
Thu May 1 11:26:42 CEST 2008


Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Sebastian Kuegler wrote:
>> Apparently this is also a runtime problem. I've seen the Oxygen style and 
>> Plasma look funny on a SUNray box, where apparently XRender is not available 
>> but (tried to be) used, resulting in LSD-like coloring of lots of widgets. 
>> Not that it doesn't look cool, but it does not a match with the artistic 
>> vision either. :-)
> 
> Oxygen style? I didn't know that used xrender? Got a screenshot?
> 

I believe this is expected behavior. Without xrender, Qt does not 
support antialiasing and some composition modes. When no xrender is 
detected, Qt just falls back to the Windows style. I guess kde needs to 
do similar?

You can test this on any machine using QT_X11_NO_XRENDER=1 ./myapp.

Girish


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