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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: New project in CVS: kpovmodeler
From:       Nikolas Zimmermann <wildfox () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-05-28 12:56:28
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On Monday 28 May 2001 13:50, David Faure wrote:
> On Monday 28 May 2001 14:25, Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> > * Nikolas Zimmermann -- Monday 28 May 2001 14:14:
> > > On Monday 28 May 2001 14:09, Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> > > > * Andreas Zehender -- Monday 28 May 2001 11:21:
> > > > > I just imported a new project into the CVS: kpovmodeler
> > > >
> > > > I would be interested in that program, but: opengl needs Qt being
> > > > built with opengl, which in turn needs also thread support. And that
> > > > is deprecated according to the README.qt-copy. Hmmm ...   :-(
> > >
> > > deprecated?
> >
> > Oh, sorry. No, it just recommends "-no-opengl" and this was only, because
> > many people had no libgl and complained.
>
> No, IIRC it's because some opengl implementations (pointing to nvidia here)
> suck big time, and were leading to awful crashes all over the place.
not anymore with their newest drivers!
> Obviously, with a good and working opengl implementation there is no
> problem.
>
> > Now I remember, some people on
> > another KDE list suggested not to use -threads, because they had no other
> > explanation for some mysterious bugs ...
>
> No, -threads isn't recommended because there are known issues with it
> (admitted by the trolltech developer himself). But if it works for you in
> most cases, good.
yep it does! :)

>
> Does opengl really require thread support in _qt_ ? Didn't know that.
just for the NVIDIA Drivers, which i'm using

Bye
 Bye
  Niko

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Nikolas Zimmermann
wildfox@kde.org
 
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