Sebastian Krzyszkowiak  

GTK4's GPU-accelerated GL renderer(s) got a major performance boost in the last few days! Previously it struggled to render simple UIs with single digit FPS on the Librem 5; now it can get pretty fancy :)

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lorabe  

@dos will the purism team port posh to GTK+4 then?

The perf improvements seem quite desirable.

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Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
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@lorabe phosh itself doesn't render that much, so maybe aside of smoother scrolling in app list it won't really matter for performance - the apps getting ported matter much more. Using GTK4 with GL in phosh will enable us to make it more fancy though, so it's still desirable.

However, we need something like gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/m to get merged first before that can happen.

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lorabe  

@dos yeah, many people desire posh to just feel smoother, IMO that would be a killer "feature".

I asume that from this point on, things will only improve.

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Alexander Mikhaylenko [old]  

@dos @lorabe I wouldn't say it doesn't matter that much; the app thumbnails in carousel are also pretty expensive. Nevermind having _live_ thumbnails and/or animated overview transition.

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Sebastian Krzyszkowiak  

@exalm @lorabe They are so expensive because they're buggy, I'm about to push a fix for that. But yeah, live thumbnails will wait for gtk4 indeed :)

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Alexander Mikhaylenko [old]  

@dos @lorabe kinda; HdyCarousel goes out of its way to avoid redrawing them at all costs. I was very happy deleting that code from the GTK4 port. :)

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