QT4 apps slooooow in ssh

[Roberto Ragusa]

On 05/08/2012 10:18 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:

> The default is the "raster" graphics engine, which works somewhat like
> you described in your original e-mail:
> http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2009/12/18/qt-graphics-and-performance-the-raster-engine/
> 
> The "native" graphics engine uses regular X11, which will probably
> always be best over SSH.
> 
> Qt also respects the QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM environment variable to
> configure this, so you can add `export QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM=native` to
> your ~/.profile or wherever to make it your "default".

Ok, so I have a work-around, but the default behavior is unacceptable,
there should be some kind of fallback to native when on a remote display,
maybe by automatically measuring the speed of bitmap transfers.

This _should_ be fixed upstream.
Is there an open bug on this already?

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