[Mageia-dev] Fwd: fallback mode

[andre999]

Olav Vitters a écrit :
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 06:56:55PM -0500, andre999 wrote:
>> Olav Vitters a écrit :
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>
> This discussion has been held various times before. Please read the wiki
> link. The reason I'm forwarding the email is to get feedback about the
> impact on Mageia.
>
For the impact on Mageia, I think that depends entirely on how they deal 
with the display performance issue.  Gnome3 should display efficiently 
on hardware without accelerated display, particularly for text display. 
  Software emulation of hardware acceleration should only be used where 
strictly necessary.

Nothing in the visual appearance of gnome3 could not be displayed 
efficiently on gnome2 on machines without hardware acceleration of 
display, so there is obviously a problem with the implementation in 
gnome3, at least up to version 3.4

If this isn't solved, many gnome users in Mageia will be forced to 
migrate to another desktop.  This could also affect gnome users that 
have one or more of several machines affected, but want to keep all 
machines on the same desktop, for ease of maintenance.

Every other aspect of changes introduced gnome3 can (or inevitably will) 
be solved.
(I have already worked around most problems, and could readily document 
that for others if desired.)

It might be useful to migrate gnome3 to fallback mode, instead of the 
inverse.  That is, modify fallback mode so that it can perform all the 
functions now in regular gnome3, including using hardware acceleration 
of display where available.  Thus using the current regular gnome3 as a 
testing ground for development of the current fallback mode.

-- 
André