Qt 4.7

Wu · 2010-09-25 06:40:18

so, is anyone using the new Qt version with KDE 4.5? Is it usable, bugs, performance, comments?

agapito · 2010-09-25 08:21:59

I am using it and i can't find differences with 4.6.

Lothium · 2010-09-25 09:00:24

I use it too, and I have no bugs or something like this. But for me it feels a little bit faster, but really just a little bit...

flamelab · 2010-09-25 09:03:18

With Qt 4.7 you can use http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40582 . Choose "Raster" engine, it makes the system more responsive, and it's not a placebo effect.

Army · 2010-09-25 09:55:30

Arora is now almost as fast as Opera in the Peacekeeper benchmark ;-) Qt's webkit is really nice!

ahcaliskan · 2010-09-25 10:32:06

kcm-qt-graphicssystem doesn't work at all. I check raster engine but it shows default despite relogin. Does qt 4.7 by default support raster?

Last edited by ahcaliskan (2010-09-25 10:32:33)

agapito · 2010-09-25 11:43:14

I selected raster but speed is the same, with opengl backend all my desktop was messed. I like KDE4 more than another desktop, but is slow, consumes more memory, more cpu, qt4 web browsers are slowwwwwww, kwin effects are very slow and i hate gtk2 apps under kde4, they look very ugly even with qtcurve or gkt-qt4-engine. For these reasons i moved to gnome recently.

flamelab · 2010-09-25 13:03:45

agapito wrote:

I selected raster but speed is the same, with opengl backend all my desktop was messed. I like KDE4 more than another desktop, but is slow, consumes more memory, more cpu, qt4 web browsers are slowwwwwww, kwin effects are very slow and i hate gtk2 apps under kde4, they look very ugly even with qtcurve or gkt-qt4-engine. For these reasons i moved to gnome recently.

ΑΤi or Intel GPU I suppose ?

Vi0L0 · 2010-09-25 15:37:46

flamelab wrote:

With Qt 4.7 you can use http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40582 . Choose "Raster" engine, it makes the system more responsive, and it's not a placebo effect.

Indeed, but do we actually need this soft?
I was always just changing exec line of /usr/share/autostart/plasma-desktop.desktop so it would look like this:

Exec=plasma-desktop --graphicssystem raster

and it seems to work, also with qt 4.6

Last edited by Vi0L0 (2010-09-25 15:38:02)

xduugu · 2010-09-25 20:30:14

Vi0L0 wrote:

Indeed, but do we actually need this soft?
I was always just changing exec line of /usr/share/autostart/plasma-desktop.desktop so it would look like this:

You can even set an environment variable (in qt 4.7) which is what this software does afaik.

QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM=raster

Wu · 2010-09-26 13:36:11

On a related topic, has anyone tried the OpenGL engine? Is it progressing somehow or still unusable?

I can't upgrade right now 'cause I have very limited bandwidth, but I will asap and stop bothering you with question I could answer by myself

flamelab · 2010-09-26 13:58:31

Vi0L0 wrote:

flamelab wrote:
With Qt 4.7 you can use http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40582 . Choose "Raster" engine, it makes the system more responsive, and it's not a placebo effect.
Indeed, but do we actually need this soft?
I was always just changing exec line of /usr/share/autostart/plasma-desktop.desktop so it would look like this:
Exec=plasma-desktop --graphicssystem raster
and it seems to work, also with qt 4.6

Τhat's just for plasma-desktop. With that program within System Settings, you have raster for all the Qt programs.

Vi0L0 · 2010-09-26 18:58:39

flamelab wrote:

Vi0L0 wrote:
flamelab wrote:
With Qt 4.7 you can use http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40582 . Choose "Raster" engine, it makes the system more responsive, and it's not a placebo effect.
Indeed, but do we actually need this soft?
I was always just changing exec line of /usr/share/autostart/plasma-desktop.desktop so it would look like this:
Exec=plasma-desktop --graphicssystem raster
and it seems to work, also with qt 4.6
Τhat's just for plasma-desktop. With that program within System Settings, you have raster for all the Qt programs.

Oh... thanks for clarifying . And yes - it is faster!

gaelic · 2010-09-26 19:44:24

agapito wrote:

I selected raster but speed is the same, with opengl backend all my desktop was messed. I like KDE4 more than another desktop, but is slow, consumes more memory, more cpu, qt4 web browsers are slowwwwwww, kwin effects are very slow and i hate gtk2 apps under kde4, they look very ugly even with qtcurve or gkt-qt4-engine. For these reasons i moved to gnome recently.

1. I don't know if raster is improving performance at all, but kde-4.5 has some performance bugs. in my case a export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 (for example in /etc/profile did the job.
2. cpu and memory consumption depends on what background apps are running (nepomuk/strigi, akonadi).
3. qt-webkit performance improved about 50% with qt-4.7, so rekonq, arora and konqueror are really usable from now on.
4. see -> 1.
5. i use some gtk2 apps but with qtcurve/gtk and/or qt-engine and/or gtk-kde4 everything works out. some glitches always remain. but also vice versa (qt/kde apps in an gtk environment)

ob1 · 2010-09-28 10:03:53

OpenOffice (go-openoffice 3.2.1.6-1) fails after showing splash screen if raster is enabled. I've got output like following:

$ oowriter
X-Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)
        Major opcode: 62 (X_CopyArea)
        Resource ID:  0x0
        Serial No:    464 (464)
These errors are reported asynchronously,
set environment variable SAL_SYNCHRONIZE to 1 to help debugging

Is there any solution or workaround for this issue?

flamelab · 2010-09-28 10:38:58

ob1 wrote:

OpenOffice (go-openoffice 3.2.1.6-1) fails after showing splash screen if raster is enabled. I've got output like following:
$ oowriter
X-Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)
        Major opcode: 62 (X_CopyArea)
        Resource ID:  0x0
        Serial No:    464 (464)
These errors are reported asynchronously,
set environment variable SAL_SYNCHRONIZE to 1 to help debugging
Is there any solution or workaround for this issue?

It's the "KDE" "integration" that fails, try this in /etc/profile

export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome

But there might be a problem with the slider on the right.

ob1 · 2010-09-28 18:00:51

flamelab wrote:

ob1 wrote:
OpenOffice (go-openoffice 3.2.1.6-1) fails after showing splash screen if raster is enabled. I've got output like following:
$ oowriter
X-Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)
        Major opcode: 62 (X_CopyArea)
        Resource ID:  0x0
        Serial No:    464 (464)
These errors are reported asynchronously,
set environment variable SAL_SYNCHRONIZE to 1 to help debugging
Is there any solution or workaround for this issue?
It's the "KDE" "integration" that fails, try this in /etc/profile

export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome
But there might be a problem with the slider on the right.

Thanks, this helped. Also I've used Method 3 from OpenOffice wiki article (see following link):

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ope … OpenOffice

ilpianista · 2010-09-29 10:26:44

Thanks for the feedback guys. Moved to [extra]

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#1 2010-09-25 06:40:18

Qt 4.7

#2 2010-09-25 08:21:59

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