Hi, On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Schimkowitsch Robert <[email protected]> wrote:
> I see there's no Qt5-Feedback list up and running, so I'll post here in the > meantime. AFAIK all qt5 feedback can go onto the development mailing list now. It's probably best to continue the discussion there. Cheers, Frans > I have really big issues with the "OpenGL ES" decision. I have developed a > 2D-graphic engine for Windows (kinda similar to GraphicsView in its > abilities), based on OpenGL. > > Over the years, I had tons of trouble with > -) Memory or resource leaks in graphic card drivers > -) Crashes when using Remote Desktop > -) Drivers only working in single monitor mode > -) Issues where the graphic output would look different on a certain graphic > card (an absolute no-go for a technical application that people depend on) > > After battling those issues for several years, I had to drop back to the > Microsoft OpenGL 1.1 software driver. Fortunately, it is quite fast enough > for what I need. It does have it's flaws, but at least I know them and can > work around them. > > Please, take it from someone who has been trough the fires: Provide a pure > software rendering fallback, at least for QWidget and QGraphicsView-based > applications! > > Allow the developer to choose this fallback! > > It makes all the difference between testing the resulting application once, > or on every graphic card with every driver version a customer might use. > Which is obviously impossible. > > Kind regards > > Robert Schimkowitsch _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
