Trolls (the Trolltech ones) are blogging about a technology preview of the UI designer for QML, integrated to Qt Creator. A youtube video is provided. QML, accompanied by an UI designer, provides an open alternative for piecing together flash-like high-FPS programs with heavily customized and animated user interfaces, built on QGraphicsView framework. While QML allows authoring the whole program in QML markup and Javascript, QML can be incorporated to Qt C++ programs with relative ease.
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Member since:2006-07-15
you will just have to wait , not for kde , but for ati drivers.
the thing with my video card, intel, is that its drivers usually are the first to get updated into new xorg / mesa tecnologies.
kde makes use of these new technologies.
in my current setup , i have KMS, DRI2, just to name a few all working flawlessly.
so dont be surprised if some day , without changing a thing in kde , you update your drivers and everything works smoothly.
of course , you dont think my i945 is more powerfull than your video card , right 
hehe
Member since:2006-01-02
Member since:2006-07-15
well , forgot to say, i dunno if you follow developments of 3d in xorg / mesa / kernel, but i guess as soon as distros start deploying kernel 2.6.33 and new xorg , you are going to get a treat ( i myself use gentoo , already using latest xorg / mesa and kernel 2.6.32 )
i dont have a radeon , so i cannot really confirm this, but there has been major work in the kernel for it.
also, i think 2.6.33 will have nouveau drivers for nvidia also.
its important that desktop stress the new mesa / gallium / kernel tecnologies, instead of rellying in the old xrender / xlib / xorg hacks ( like compiz does , which is fair since its codebase is being completly rewritten, i hope the new compiz uses the new 3d technologies )
Member since:2006-01-02
I'm sure it'll be great, just like the last 10 releases were. Still won't fix inefficient toolkits and underlying deficiencies in X's rendering model. I'm sure slapping another 3 layers of "acceleration" protocols will fix the problem in time, along with providing a host of new bugs and not supporting hardware that should be accelerable.
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2006-01-02
Well, I'll reply anyways.
What you got is NOT what I experienced on my T43 with a Radeon X300. While compiz was smooth, as well as xcompmgr, KWin and Qt4 were anything but. I'm not the only one who's complained about KDE 4 performance (not by far).
I'm glad it works on your card and probably 2 or 3 others. For everyone else, it sucks.