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Web browsers? Programs based around images/video? LibreOffice? Krita? Blender? Most "productivity" apps I see are based around a canvas or around images in some

• AshamedCaptain 5y ago
  All of these are "toolbars-forms-dialogs-and-buttons". Something like this https://github.com/KDE/kongress/blob/master/screenshots/combined.png https://github.com/KDE/kongress/blob/master/screenshots/comb... would perhaps not be "toolbars-forms-dialogs-and-buttons" , but that is hardly recognizable as an application you find on your desktop PC.
  • md8z 5y ago
    Except they aren't really, the main widget in all of those is already an OpenGL accelerated canvas... If your application is primarily a form or a dialog then yeah, but everything else that has images or video or custom drawing is going to want hardware acceleration. Maybe you spend a lot of time filling out forms or in text editors or writing emails? But I think even those text-based apps will want to be hardware accelerated eventually too, just look at the number of GPU rendered terminal emulators that are popping up.