Konqueror slow with bigger images

[Simon Hausmann]

On Friday 19 May 2006 10:35, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Thursday, 18. May 2006 11:56, Hasso Tepper wrote:
> > on webpages with some images. Indeed I can reproduce this on all my
> > computers. For good example look at screenshots in
> > http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=10187
>
> which gfx hardware is that? radeon? The "speedup patches" for alpha-blended
> images that have gone into 3.5 tree have caused awful regressions there.
>
> if its nvidia, then its unfortunately a wontfix. nvidia has changed their
> driver to make firefox faster, and they will not re-add acceleration for
> "qt3's weird ways of abusing xrender". Unfortunately a proper fix requires
> someone familiar with qt and X and Xrender; and thats not me. Unfortunately
> qt4 did not fix this issue, so in the long term we'll have to work around
> Qt and add direct xrender handling in KHTML.

I know two people in Oslo being familiar with Qt and X and Xrender (soon 
three). If they knew about the problem they might be able to fix it ;)


Simon