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First impressions
by perraw on Friday 09/Jul/2004, @15:23

I have just done "make install" and are ready to take a look at it. One thing I noticed during configure was that it required XCursor 1.0, and I had 1.1. I changed the test scripts so it would allow 1.1 as well.

The Qt Paint engine test (Arthur) for alpha blended primitives was butt slow on my machine. But I think I read somewhere that at this stage it was unaccelerated on X11. The open gl thing was fast though.

The textedit demo felt faster. A bit surprise that it doesn't select the whole word if you start at the middle (yes, like windows does) and move left/right.

Plasmatable, butt slow here. Probably 1/3 rd of the speed my i386-sx 16 did in a plasma demo :=)

Toolbar demo, sad to see that you can't have the toolbar next to the menubar like in IE on windows :( It can save you screen space.

Then I would like to see async sql queries. But I'm not sure yet if they are. Would be so cool to have a signal fire when the query is done. Sometimes sql queries take minutes before result is back....

Will give it a greater than-5-minute-spin tomorrow :)

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Re: First impressions
by Matthias Ettrich on Saturday 10/Jul/2004, @03:09

The plasmatable is not a plasma demo, it is a QTableView demo. It abuse the model/view paradigm to show its flexibility. The plasm table is a basically a spreadsheet with every pixel being one cell. Try selecting the cells with the mouse, and you'll see.

While it is slow for a plasma demo, it is fast for a table view.

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Re: First impressions
by aleXXX on Saturday 10/Jul/2004, @03:54

Yes, same here for the alpha blending.
Otherwise, cool :-)

Alex

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Re: First impressions
by Asdex on Sunday 11/Jul/2004, @03:44

> The textedit demo felt faster. A bit surprise that it doesn't select the whole
> word if you start at the middle (yes, like windows does) and move left/right.

Nice, I have always hated that windows-"feature".

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