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  • FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Probably because it’s more efficient. GPUs are designed to render things, which editors do. In a text editor, you’re effectively rendering fonts over a fixed background, which I assume is pretty efficient using the GPU.

    We’re not talking about crazy 3D effects here.

    Yay to battery savings!

    • booly@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      Shouldn’t the DE/Window Manager be handling that? Seems like doing it on a window by window basis would be inefficient (and look inconsistent).

      • leopold@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish
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        4 months ago

        The job of the window manager is to manage windows and very little else. Font rendering is done by the widget toolkit, usually via freetype/harfbuzz.