Sigil and text selection

I noticed that selecting text in the "code view" of Sigil by dragging the mouse+main button is awfully laggy.
This is true for the community package (0.8.6-2, got same behaviour after building it locally with -march=native) and the sigil-git from AUR.
Probably this is due to the change to QT5, but I do not know when this happened. I had not noticed the problem before, but I also have no clue if the version I was using was QT4 or QT5 based
This seems to be somehow known, I found a reference on one thread but no indication of fixes.
In contrast, kwrite (also based on QT5 but not sure if KDE runtime may have something on top) has no issue when selecting text with the mouse.
The workaround is simple: click once to set the cursor position, then do shift-click at the end of the intended selection. No lags when doing it like this. Also, selection with keyboard works OK (even if it feels a bit laggy).
Anyone else suffering from the same?

i have same problem. i opened a issue: https://github.com/user-none/Sigil/issues/39
Last edited by quellen (2015-05-16 11:47:20)

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