[mythtv-users] Planned MythTV 0.22 user interface.

[Paul Harrison]

David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Mon, November 17, 2008 9:32 am, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>   
>> The parts of the interface that have been ported over to the new UI
>> are much snappier for me. Everything seems just a little smoother and
>> more responsive and I can only imagine it to get better since it will
>> be taking advantage of OpenGL acceleration on the video card instead
>> of using the QT painter rendered on the CPU.
>>     
>
> Does this mean OpenGL will now be a requirement?
>
> All my current machines support it, so I guess it's OK either way, but I'm
> curious if the QT painter will still be available.  I have an old VIA
> frontend machine in the closet that I've been thinking of setting up
> again, but if OpenGL will be required in the future there's no point in
> wasting time on it.
>
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You will still be able to chose which painter to use.  Some features 
like animation will only work using the OpenGL painter though.