KWin and Qt5

Aaron J. Seigo aseigo at kde.org
Mon May 9 23:16:57 CEST 2011


On Monday, May 9, 2011 19:38:28 Marco Martin wrote:
> On Monday 09 May 2011, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > yes it's early, but there was something in Lars's blog post [1] which I
> > need to braindump/discuss. Let me quote the important part: "Qt will
> > require OpenGL (ES) 2.0 to work. QWidgets will be layered on top of the
> > scene graph (not the scene graph on top of QWidgets as is currently done
> > with Qt 4)."
> 
> this sounds to me as qgraphicsproxywidgets pain all over again and i really

the one ray of hope i have is that QGraphicsProxyWidget had to work with 
QWidget as it was. in Qt5, there is the opportunity to break ABI and allow 
this to be done Properly(tm) by making necessary changes in QWidget itself.

we need to get involved early :)

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