Prevent GPU acceleration in macOS desktop app?

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There seems to be no settings for it.

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Hi! Could you describe why an option for it would be needed?

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A couple of reasons:

  • Save battery life
  • Preserve discrete GPU (google faulty 2010/2011 mbp gpu)

I can understand Photoshop needing it since it renders 3D objects but why does rocket need GPU acceleration?

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Most of the time, it’s for embedded content, like videos, and a few animations, but I bet it increases the smoothness on scrolling a huge chunk of messages. However, we already disabled it by default on Linux due to a video driver issue when dragging elements and AFAIK it doesn’t degraded user experience.
I like this feature, but it should be available on the UI instead of some command line or configuration file. It isn’t defined yet which release will bring a Preferences panel, which I consider a blocker to implement this setting.

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Nice, will this be implemented soon or it’s on a todo list?

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In the current milestone (version 2.15.0) we are working to redesign the UI internally (i.e. rewrite the components to make collaboration and maintenance more easy), which will enable 2.16.0 to hold a Preferences panel. There is no ETA for these releases, but usually they are monthly.

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And the update is here. The desktop app doesn’t use the GPU anymore. Thank you team.