Re: oxygen style needs xrender?

Girish Ramakrishnan wrote:
> Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> Sebastian Kuegler wrote:
>>> Apparently this is also a runtime problem. I've seen the Oxygen style and 
>>> Plasma look funny on a SUNray box, where apparently XRender is not available 
>>> but (tried to be) used, resulting in LSD-like coloring of lots of widgets. 
>>> Not that it doesn't look cool, but it does not a match with the artistic 
>>> vision either. :-)
>> Oxygen style? I didn't know that used xrender? Got a screenshot?
> 
> I believe this is expected behavior. Without xrender, Qt does not 
> support antialiasing and some composition modes. 

Ah, ok, so it's indirect via using the nice painting features of Qt...

> When no xrender is 
> detected, Qt just falls back to the Windows style. I guess kde needs to 
> do similar?
> 
> You can test this on any machine using QT_X11_NO_XRENDER=1 ./myapp.

AAIIIEE!!! Ok, that looks HORRIBLE! So, yeah, I guess when picking the 
default style we need to check for XRender and use some generic style if 
it isn't present.

Is the case of "occasionally" having/not having XRender rare enough that 
we can allow a user-selected style (via the KCS) to override that 
behavior? Or should we always check unless -style was used?

-- 
Matthew
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