On Thursday October 11 2018 05:06:51 Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
>What "them"? The KDE folks? Apple? I thought Qt4/KDE4 was unsupported.
Apple. It shouldn't matter for them whether Qt4/KDE4 is supported or not, this
is a compatibility issue for older/legacy apps.
I know their target population has shifted, but traditionally they had a large
user base for whom such things were very important.
>I gather Qt4 has -graphicssystem { native | raster | opengl }
I wasn't aware of the "native" option but it should have the same effect as
settingRasterOff=1 in the environment (for KDE4 apps).
>open -a kshisen --args -graphicssystem native
>
>it does NOT blink - at first glance, it looks fine.
That would be great news, just *maybe* Apple fixed something which caused
native rendering to be troublesome in KDE4 apps?
I'd have to run KDE4 apps with native rendering for a while on my system to see
if there are in fact any issues with it (when using QCurve).
>open -a kshisen --args -graphicssystem opengl
>
>then text appears, but all the graphics are blank until I move the window (!),
>at which time it's fine.
The OpenGL backend is experimental; if anything it causes lots of terminal
output.
>Supposedly raster could have been faster than native on some platforms, so I
>suppose I can see that it might have become the default. But I don't see that
>native was slow, although kshisen is not demanding, and I may not have run it
>before on this relatively new hardware back on High Sierra, so I might not
>notice speed anyway.
Either way, slower is better than psychedelically flashy...
R
