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539ba0ae6f (qbs/qbs/master) 539ba0ae6f (qbs/qbs/1.24)
Description
I noticed that my app was using significant energy according to the battery menu thingy on macOS. I figured out that this is due to "Requires High Perf GPU" showing "Yes" in activity monitor. I looked around a bit and found QTCREATORBUG-11296, with patches that fix it for Creator by setting NSSupportsAutomaticGraphicsSwitching to true in its Info.plist file. For my Qbs project, I did it like this:
Properties { condition: qbs.targetOS.contains("macos") bundle.infoPlist: ({ "NSSupportsAutomaticGraphicsSwitching": "true" }) }
Now it's not listed as using significant energy or requiring a high performance GPU. I can't notice any difference in FPS in my app from (very) brief testing.
This seems like a very important thing for developers to know about.
This page could be a good place for it:
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/macos-issues.html
Could also be good to link to any eventual documentation for this on https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtquick-performance.html.