[rekonq] Re: Recent performance hit

[Panagiotis Papadopoulos]

Am Donnerstag 04 November 2010, 18:56:24 schrieb Pierre Rossi:
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 17:46, Shane Lazar <shane at archlinux.us> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:01 PM, <benjamin.poulain at nokia.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> That could be following the patch
> >> ef043a4fb69f68e4a7258e84194c567f64edc51f. The graphics system raster can
> >> make a big difference especially on x86 and x86_64.
> >>
> >> If you start rekonq with the option "-graphicssystem raster", does the
> >> performance improve?
> >>
> >> cheers,
> >> Benjamin
> >>
> >> PS: sorry for top-posting, it's a webmail since I am on the move :)
> >>
> >> ________________________________________
> >> From: ext Shane Lazar [shane at archlinux.us]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 8:26 PM
> >> To: rekonq at kde.org
> >> Subject: [rekonq]  Recent performance hit
> >>
> >> I recompile Rekonq once in a while. My last build from GIT was on 22
> >> October 2010 and I must say that it was one of the best builds ever. The
> >> Youtube/Flash problem I was having got sorted being the big improvement.
> >>
> >> Today (3 November) I built again from GIT but it seems like it has taken a
> >> performance hit. Scrolling pages gives feeling something like a low FPS in a
> >> game. The page jumps from one part to the other instead of scrolling
> >> smoothly. Installing the older package from 22 October fixes this. Is this a
> >> known issue or can I help debug it?
> >>
> >
> >
> > Yes, that does help. Thanks. Can we hope for this to be fixed or am I going
> > to have to do this from now on?
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> >
> You could configure Qt with this same flag (-graphicssystem raster) too, to
> make it the default.
> I guess you could also revert commit
> ef043a4fb69f68e4a7258e84194c567f64edc51f in your local clone if that's more
> convenient for you. (if you're using a PKGBUILD, that's an easy thing to
> do).
> 
> Hopefully we'll restore this in rekonq in the future, ideally we'd need to
> fix this weird menu issue in Qt to allow us to get this back.
> 

If you are using Qt 4.7.0 (which you should :-D) apparently it is also possible to add 
export QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM=raster
to your .bashrc/.zshrc

Greetings