KWin and Qt5

[Marco Martin]

On Monday 09 May 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> 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 :)

indeed.
and this influences the design of plasma2 quite a bit as well
(we could be forced to eat the cake, even if a lie ;)

-- 
Marco Martin