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I wish this were true. The documentation at https://developer-old.gnome.org/gtk4...rameclock.html says otherwise:



The...

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FTFY



I mostly agree too, but it would have been nice if the GTK devs had aimed a little higher and got the best of both wo...

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Ah, another Baggins.

It seems pretty clear from the bug reports and MR that the developers consider the text rendering regressions a feature,...

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Well that video was positively epilepsy-inducing...



That's great, but what they didn't mention is that if your program is unfortunate...

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A real gift would be GPU documentation....

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Hopefully future hardware iterations will be similar enough to the first to make driver development time much shorter.

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In the timespan it'll take Apple's chip to get good open source GPU drivers, the rest of the industry will have already produced a higher-performing chip...

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Seems more like EEE in reverse. "Here's an open-source compiler for a language we previously used as vendor lock-in."...

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Vulkan delivering on its promises - make driver writing easier by only having to write a Vulkan driver.



Does moltenvk count?...

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As much as I dislike GNOME's architecture, I think the remark about void* is a little unfair. They do at least have a well-developed type system that...

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Sorry, I was referring to (any) GPU rasteriser. Anyway, with both approaches to glyph rendering, the bandwidth issues are the same, more or less negligible,...

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You have confused rotating the screen (by increments of 90 degrees) with arbitrary rotation of text....

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Subpixel positioning != subpixel AA....

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That's what Pathfinder says about itself. The reality is that it's more or less ceased development. So indeed not all of its functionality is there -...

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To add more detail now that I have time, in case the above comes off as an attempt at trolling:

• The GTK4 developers committed to rendering text using

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