We re-added back for a specific large customer at that time, who was using Qt/X11 over low bandwidth connections and where the image based painting was not performing well enough.
It's a long time ago, so I don't quite remember who the customer was. But I doubt that they still have the same problem today, so I would also go for removing it. Cheers, Lars > On 27 Oct 2025, at 09:56, Eirik Aavitsland via Development > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > +1 for removing it. It was only added in Qt 5 on Lars’ request to solve some > very specific usecase that nobody remembers anymore. It has no future. > > - Eirik Aa. > > > Confidential > From: Development <[email protected]> on behalf of Thiago > Macieira <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, 25 October 2025 at 18:42 > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Development] Enabling xcb-native-painting feature in CI > > On Saturday, 25 October 2025 08:59:40 Pacific Daylight Time Albert Astals Cid > wrote: > > Removing it was going to be my initial suggestion, but after speaking to the > > opensuse packagers it seems there is some use for it > > > > https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbugzilla.opensuse.org%2Fshow_bug.cgi%3Fid%3D1214915&data=05%7C02%7C%7C8fb6825610764d67cd8e08de13e58746%7C20d0b167794d448a9d01aaeccc1124ac%7C0%7C0%7C638970073737388485%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=c67q4ycfU6Qc83H2589NUUl6QYMzQ%2Fnk%2BBAgwevn12k%3D&reserved=0 > > <https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1214915> > > > > Yes, i know the bug mentions qt5 but i would assume it potentially applies > > for qt6 too. > > The problem is that it's dangerous, as it seems no one is building this and > testing it. The only changes to it since it was revived in 2017 appear to be > build and issue fixes. I suppose that if anyone reported issues with it in > JIRA, we wouldn't be able to fix and would close the bug report as "you've > used > an experimental feature, you accepted the risk" > > -- > Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com > Principal Engineer - Intel Data Center Group > -- > Development mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
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