old OpenGL -> fallback to software renderer
Dirk Hohndel
dirk at hohndel.org
Sun Oct 29 11:13:53 PDT 2017
> On Oct 29, 2017, at 9:40 AM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> i've made a PR for this at:
> https://github.com/Subsurface-divelog/subsurface/pull/745
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Pull request long description:
>
> we have a bit of a problem with the map widget...it's QtQuick based
> and QtQuick2 needs OpenGL 2.1 on Desktop. it seems that some users are
> using prehistoric hardware or simply do not have good GPU drivers
> installed. without drivers installed Windows only has OpenGL 1.1.
>
> But this is a potential problem on all desktop platforms and we need
> to fall back to a software renderer.
> To my understanding Marble did the same.
>
> Changes made:
>
> notify the users in README that the desktop version needs OpenGL 2.1 at least.
> attempt to automatically detect older OpenGL and fallback to a
> software renderer.
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> please test.
Since I worry about people's ability to test this if it isn't in master (and it
seems self defeating to make it harder to test) I merged this. It's now in
master, new test binaries are in production and should hit the usual
places in the near future.
/D
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