Ship with Aurorae and Qtcurve or not...

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Thursday 15 May 2014 12:21:34 Martin Klapetek wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin at kde.org> wrote:
> > The performance will be bad with Aurorae (worse than with Oxygen). The
> > crashes
> > are now gone as we disabled the multi-threading.
> > 
> > My position doesn't change on that: Aurorae is not suited as a default
> > theme.
> > This has just never been considered in the design of Aurorae and makes
> > compromises away from performance. Unfortunately with Qt 5 the performance
> > impact got significantly worse (up to a degree where I thought about git
> > rm
> > it).
> 
> And that's not fixable I guess?

no, it's lacking support in Qt to share the opengl context of Qt and of KWin. 
I don't think this will ever be able to fix.

> 
> Maybe we could make it the default and in combination with what Ivan is
> proposing, warn the users that the style is just a preview, how they can
> change it and that we're working on a solution to make it
> rock-solid-stable-fast in the next version?

I really don't want to have an Aurorae theme as default. It would undermine 
the fact that I told distros to not do that. We cannot bend ourselves like 
that :-)

Cheers
Martin
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