[Development] QtSC: Scene Graph discussion

[Laszlo Papp]

On 2 August 2013 08:39, Sletta Gunnar <Gunnar.Sletta at digia.com> wrote:

>
> On Aug 1, 2013, at 10:59 AM, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Sletta Gunnar <Gunnar.Sletta at digia.com>
> wrote:
> > Indeed, the proposed patch created an new library (which was only built
> when manually cd'ing into src/scenegraph and building it there) which would
> not have been usable together with Qt Quick (until Qt 6, that is).
> >
> > I would be personally more than happy for scene graph to become compact,
> i.e. qml and qtquick being a separate layer. I do not mind in which
> repository this separation happens in; that is just details for me, not a
> technology show stopper. That brings me to my question: although I was
> attending to the session, have you discussed this out of the session with
> others?
> >
>
> Have I discussed it outside, yes. I posted a mail to the mailing list a
> month or so back with little response and I've discussed it with a couple
> of people directly. The topic usually ends on: what is the benefit of using
> the stripped-down SG API, without text support, when you could do much the
> same and probably do something even faster, dedicated for your purpose
> using raw OpenGL.


What is blocking the text support being added later if it is not yet
available?


> The new renderer, I've been working on will make it a bit harder to beat,
> but for a specific usecase, raw OpenGL will always be better.
>

5.2 material or later?


> I think 1. makes sense regardless, because it makes the codebase cleaner.
> The session kinda concluded that 2-4 are not needed. Then again, if 1 is in
> place, pulling that into its own library which can be used stand-alone is
> pretty simple, so the presence of 2-4 is less pressing.
>

The audience may not need it, but I would. :-) "less pressing" means it is
not high priority for you, but contribution is welcome?
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