rjvbb added a comment.
A little tinker tool: github.com/RJVB/kbusygadget. An inter-frame freeze duration of 75ms already decreases CPU load (according to `top`) to approx. 3.6% (= almost 4x). I cannot really say if I notice the effect of this short a freeze on the rotation smoothness or speed. I will use this to "take things up wit Qt" as suggested - i.e. on the interest ML. R. REPOSITORY R236 KWidgetsAddons REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D22375 To: sitter, cfeck, apol Cc: rjvbb, ngraham, kossebau, broulik, kde-frameworks-devel, apol, LeGast00n, GB_2, michaelh, bruns