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 y

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.