On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:45:22 -0800 (PST)
Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...> wrote:

> Same article, I read the following:
> 
> "The next major version of Qt will be Qt 5. It is expected to be
> released in 2012. This new version will mark a major change of
> paradigm in the platform, with hardware-accelerated graphics...."
> 
> I wonder whether than means hardware graphics acceleration will
> become a requirement to use Qt5 based apps. The GNOME developers
> traveled that same road with GNOME 3.
Apparently it will:
http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/05/11/responses-to-qt-5/
But OTOH GLSL is a high-level language, and llvmpipe enables
compilation from shaders to optimised x86, so doing the rendering with
OpenGL ES shaders rather than custom C++ is not necessarily a big
performance loss even without hardware 3D acceleration (we'll have for
example the advantage that LLVM will target the exact available CPU
features).
GNOME 3 mandatory compositing/OpenGL reportedly already works without
using hardware GPU acceleration:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAxMjI
Obviously we'll have to see how it actually works with Qt5.