Test KDevelop4 with --graphicssystem native

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 21.11.09 13:42:25, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> a recent bugreport shows that raster engine isn't quite the right choice
> in all cases (remote X, i.e. ssh -X or XDMCP). Which made me re-check
> how fast it is nowadays (with Qt4.6) at rendering text. The good news
> is, its fast enough to type quickly in kate. 
> 
> As this is only 1 system I currently have with Qt4.6, I'd like to gather
> some feedback from other people running Qt4.6. So please try running
> kdevelop with --graphicssystem native and work with that. Let me know
> wether its faster as before or slower (we're using raster on Qt4.5.2 and
> later).
> 
> I suggest that if we don't find enough data one way or the other we'll
> keep what we have now and see how many bugreports we receive during the
> KDE4.4 phase and re-evaluate based on that for 4.1.

I've done a test on my old HP laptop (its from 2003, 1.4GHz CPU, 1G RAM,
Intel graphics), with Qt4.5.3 and KDE 4.3.3. There was no noticeable
difference between raster and native graphicsmode on that machine. In
fact it was reasonably fast and I could've actually used kdevelop there.

Andreas

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