9 Oct
2016
9 Oct
'16
9:45 p.m.
Hi,
I'm just wondering whether someone has looked at/considered using Qt5
with Trinity. There was an article recently from the LXQt people which
was quite positive about its memory usage: https://blog.lxde.org/?p=1364
I'm aware that there have been concerns that Qt4 (so maybe Qt5 too?) has
significant dependencies on having a fast GPU to get performance while
Qt3/TQt will work much better when a GPU is not available.
Best regards,
Julius
11 Oct
11 Oct
8:47 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Qt5
On 2016/10/10 06:45 AM, Julius Schwartzenberg wrote:
Hi,
I'm just wondering whether someone has looked at/considered using Qt5
with Trinity. There was an article recently from the LXQt people which
was quite positive about its memory usage: https://blog.lxde.org/?p=1364
I'm aware that there have been concerns that Qt4 (so maybe Qt5 too?) has
significant dependencies on having a fast GPU to get performance while
Qt3/TQt will work much better when a GPU is not available.
Best regards,
Julius
Extremely unlikely unless an army of volunteering developers suddenly decided to join TDE
:-)
It would probably take ages with the current developer workforce we have available, which
is why the original plan to
move to qt4 was put aside some time ago.
Cheers
Michele
12 Oct
12 Oct
9:10 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Qt5
Op 11-10-16 om 10:47 schreef Michele Calgaro:
On 2016/10/10 06:45 AM, Julius Schwartzenberg wrote:
I remember it was mainly about performance. I actually have a repo on
GitHub which has a version of Kicker that runs on Qt4/KDE4. I also
remember Tim had Trinity mostly working against Qt4 but he saw a lot of
performance issues.
Having a Trinity-like DE on Qt5 could probably mostly be achieved by
porting just Kicker and KDesktop to Qt5/KDE5 and having a session with
those instead of Plasma. That wouldn't make sense if performance would
suffer significantly though.
There was also the recent announcement about Qt Lite. It's supposed to
run on systems with as little as 16 MB of memory and doesn't require
OpenGL:
http://blog.qt.io/blog/2016/08/18/introducing-the-qt-lite-project-qt-for-an…
Maybe these developments are out of scope for the Trinity project
already, but it would be interesting to hear if anybody had compared
them with Qt3/TQt.
Best regards,
Julius
Hi,
I'm just wondering whether someone has looked at/considered using Qt5
with Trinity. There was an article recently from the LXQt people which
was quite positive about its memory usage: https://blog.lxde.org/?p=1364
I'm aware that there have been concerns that Qt4 (so maybe Qt5 too?) has
significant dependencies on having a fast GPU to get performance while
Qt3/TQt will work much better when a GPU is not available.
Best regards,
Julius
Extremely unlikely unless an army of volunteering developers suddenly decided to join TDE
:-)
It would probably take ages with the current developer workforce we have available, which
is why the original plan to
move to qt4 was put aside some time ago.
Cheers
Michele
14 Oct
14 Oct
12:08 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Qt5
On 2016/10/12 11:10 PM, Julius Schwartzenberg wrote:
Op 11-10-16 om 10:47 schreef Michele Calgaro:
Thanks Julius,
I think performance was one side of it, but the other one was manpower as well (I
wasn't around at that time, so I may
be wrong...). Now it would surely be manpower, given we are just 4-5 developers in total,
often not all present for some
time due to personal work/life commitments. So I think that for the time being, TDE will
remain on TQt3, unless Tim
comes around and has other ideas about it (given that he is the project coordinator after
all).
Cheers
Michele
On 2016/10/10 06:45 AM, Julius Schwartzenberg
wrote:
I remember it was mainly about performance. I actually have a repo on GitHub which has a
version of Kicker that runs on
Qt4/KDE4. I also remember Tim had Trinity mostly working against Qt4 but he saw a lot of
performance issues.
Having a Trinity-like DE on Qt5 could probably mostly be achieved by porting just Kicker
and KDesktop to Qt5/KDE5 and
having a session with those instead of Plasma. That wouldn't make sense if
performance would suffer significantly though.
There was also the recent announcement about Qt Lite. It's supposed to run on systems
with as little as 16 MB of memory
and doesn't require OpenGL:
http://blog.qt.io/blog/2016/08/18/introducing-the-qt-lite-project-qt-for-an…
Maybe these developments are out of scope for the Trinity project already, but it would
be interesting to hear if
anybody had compared them with Qt3/TQt.
Best regards,
Julius
Hi,
I'm just wondering whether someone has looked at/considered using Qt5
with Trinity. There was an article recently from the LXQt people which
was quite positive about its memory usage: https://blog.lxde.org/?p=1364
I'm aware that there have been concerns that Qt4 (so maybe Qt5 too?) has
significant dependencies on having a fast GPU to get performance while
Qt3/TQt will work much better when a GPU is not available.
Best regards,
Julius
Extremely unlikely unless an army of volunteering developers suddenly decided to join TDE
:-)
It would probably take ages with the current developer workforce we have available, which
is why the original plan to
move to qt4 was put aside some time ago.
Cheers
Michele
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