[Development] Proposal: Qt 4.9 release

[Thiago Macieira]

On quarta-feira, 15 de agosto de 2012 22.05.02, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
> From wiki:
> 
> "QPA on Qt4.8 only makes sense on OpenGL Hardware! If you don’t have OpenGL
> HW there is absolutely no point in choosing Qt4.8-QPA over Qt4.8-QWS"

The wiki is wrong.

There's a lot of reason for choosing QPA, regardless of OpenGL support or lack 
thereof. There are also reasons for choosing QWS instead of QPA, even with 
OpenGL hardware, if those reasons are stronger than the best adaptation to 
OpenGL (example: the QWS display server).

In Qt 5, QPA is more complete and works on the desktop systems.

> Does Qt5-QPA on non-OpenGL hardware perform not worse than Qt4.8-QWS?

Of course. Performance has nothing to do with it, since in your case 
everything will be running software rendering anyway.

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