[Mageia-dev] Gnome mess in Mageia SVN...

[Sebastian]

On 24/02/13 22:10, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Sebastian at 24/02/13 20:59 did gyre and gimble:
>> I don't think Mageia providing GNOME 3.8 with the new classic mode made
>> using extensions, rather than the old fall back mode, would cause loads
>> of problems: http://worldofgnome.org/gnome-classic-not-classic-all/
> The issue is not to do with the code itself, but generally to do with
> how well the rendering stuff works on older hardware without 3D
> acceleration capabilities. This requires the use of LLVM Pipe IIRC, but
> I've not investigated this.
>
> That said, I'm personally more than happy to discuss the options again,
> provided we enter it knowing all the potential problems.
Potential problems yeah, such as how it seems XFCE and LXDE also rely on 
components from the fallback mode, well according to this: 
https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointSeven/Features/DropOrFixFallbackMode Of 
course Fedora 19 will be supporting GNOME 3.8, but also XFCE and LXDE, 
or so I belive, so one to look at I guess for this kind of thing, as to 
what they do.

Also after sending the original email I chatted to a good IRC friend of 
mine about this, and it seems I may have been wrong. That actually the 
new classic mode doesn't have the same purpouse as the fallback mode did 
(to be used when the computers can't run GNOME Shell), and that instead 
it's just really for those that want a more GNOME 2 like interface. The 
new classic mode really even uses GNOME Shell going by articles, but yep 
in a seperate session with the extensions instead. So if it isn't a 
proper fallback replacement as in with the same purpouse, then sure it 
may be better to use GNOME 3.6 in Mageia 3, because of this,  unless 
there is a way to use all or most of GNOME 3.8 whilst also providing the 
GNOME 3.6 fall back mode. Something I forgot to mention in my other email.

As for LLVMPIPE yes that's what's used to run GNOME Shell these days 
when it can't run a graphics card driver for it, on well computers where 
it can run LLVMPIPE, or virtual machines even on a computer where it can 
be used like that.
>
> Col
>
Sebastian