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Re: Memory usage..
by JeanPaul on Thursday 27/Mar/2008, @11:28

What is the double buffering for anyway? If I look at the poor way windows and widgets are drawn at the moment (I'm referring to 4.0.2), I don't expect double buffering there. Or am I missing something?

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Re: Memory usage..
by Leo S on Thursday 27/Mar/2008, @11:49

The poor way windows are drawn? Can you elaborate? They are drawn nicely here.

Every widget is double buffered in Qt4, and by extension KDE4. For example, dragging a window in front of a dolphin's file view does not cause any flicker as the file view refreshes, as it used to in KDE3.

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Re: Memory usage..
by JeanPaul on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @09:49

With "poorly drawn" I mean that I can see the window redrawing on a maximizing/restore/minimize in a very shaky way, and no compositing effects are smooth animations, even doing something simple like selecting file->new for example in any kde4 program makes that file menu pop up, then it disappear, then it is redrawn again, which is killing my user experience. And all that while my gfx card (a GeForce8600M) obviously can (and does) run compiz smoothly (except for fsaa, but that's another problem altogether anyway).

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