Plasma::Wallpaper does software scaling/copying when it isn't necessary

[Zack Rusin]

On Monday 12 July 2010 16:11:07 Giulio Camuffo wrote:
> On Monday 12 July 2010 21:46:37 Zack Rusin wrote:
> > > Is it currently possible? Plasma doesn't currently have a GL engine I
> > > don't think?
> > 
> > Just start it with "-graphicsystem opengl" and go from there.
> 
> Wouldn't be possible to do a GL wallpaper as there is a Plasma::GLApplet?

In GLApplet we read back the data from the GPU, copy it to a QImage and render 
that. It works ok for smaller Plasmoids but it's rather useless for fullscreen 
rendering.

z