[Panel-devel] svg rendering

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Tuesday 30 October 2007, Sean Harmer wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 October 2007 12:16:43 Sven Burmeister wrote:
> > On Dienstag, 30. Oktober 2007, Sean Harmer wrote:
> > > A problem that I have just run into is that in Qt 4.3.x rendering of
> > > fonts is not supported outside of the GUI thread. This leads to
> > > problems when trying to render for e.g. the analog clock SVG in a
> > > separate thread.
> >
> > How many plasmoids have those issues? Could the threading not be disabled
> > by those plasmoids and be enabled by default for others? All they would
> > have to do when this feature is available is to remove the bit telling
> > plasma to not use multi-threading and all other plasmoids would already
> > benefit from your work.
>
> Hi Sven,
>
> Good point. I don't know is the honest answer. I'll spend some time going
> through the applets and their associated SVG's soon. Shouldn't be too hard
> to implement either (famous last words).

a simple Svg::hasText(bool) method would allow the lib to work around this 
problem transparently to applets, right? in 4.0 it could disable threaded 
rendering for that Svg object, and in 4.1 it could do ... nothing. =)

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