New Post: The Real Speed of the Librem 5

Phosh uses acceleration features of the compositor for gestures, blending, etc. The UI elements that are GTK3 are CPU rendered. GTK3 apps aren’t hw accelerated, GTK4 apps are. I use VPU acceleration for video decoding in e.g. livi and I had fixed in in epiphany/webkit a while back (didn’t check recently if that’s still the case).

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Eagerly awaiting Crimson for smoother app scrolling and possibly better battery life

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gtk4 apps are hw acc via Vulkan/OpenGL=mesa if i am not wrong.
somebody needs to implement it for the Librem5 Hantro/Vivante Hardware.

video decoding is a different story:

partially video playback yes, rest rather not!

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