[Qt-interest] Is the "raster vs native" issue on X11 still an issue?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

I ask because the distro I'm using is considering making raster the 
default.  I'm just interested how "sane" this would be from the 
perspective of the upstream devs, especially since they pointed to that 
blog post as the rationale for the possible switch.

On 03/04/2010 11:59 PM, amulya rattan wrote:
> Raster on the latest Qt renders with very good results, much better than
> native, but of course it depends on the kind of graphics operations u
> use..if you need simple alpha blending or gradients etc, Raster is your man!
>
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at arcor.de
> <mailto:realnc at arcor.de>> wrote:
>
>     About two years back, this blog was posted:
>
>     http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/10/22/so-long-and-thanks-for-the-blit/
>
>     In some Linux distributions, there's talk about changing the default
>     from "native" to "raster", even though raster sometimes results in minor
>     graphics glitches.  But are the issues from 2008 still relevant today?
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