[Mageia-dev] Features

[mustafaa1987 at yahoo.com]

On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 05:56:34 PM Mustafa Muhammad wrote:
> On 01/15/2013 03:42 PM, Thomas Backlund wrote:
> > Mustafaa Al-Hamdaani skrev 15.1.2013 14:35:
> >> Hi,
> >> Are features still accepted for Mageia 3? I have these three:
> >> 1) Enable vertical two finger scrolling by default, simple but
> >> important.
> >> 2) Desktop greeter (like kaptan of pardus or its fork for Chakra,
> >> kapudan):
> >> http://www.chakra-linux.org/wiki/index.php/Kapudan
> >> 3) catalyst-legacy for AMD cards 4xxx and before.
> > 
> > This one depends on AMD.
> > They have not released any legacy driver since 12.6 last summer,
> > and that is not supporting x11-server 1.13 we use.
> 
> I know, I just hoped we can ship x11-server 1.12 and 1.13 and only one
> of them is installed, the power consumption with the open source drivers
> is just insane, especially for a laptop (and the quality too).
> 
I asked yesterday and the answer was "too late", but if this is technically 
possible, I think it will make a huge difference for a big number of Mageia 
users, maybe 25% of all users use those AMD cards, so please would you 
reconsider shipping catalyst-legacy if it is technically feasible.
For such a benefit for the community, I think it worth considering (from 
catalyst maintainer and others).

> >> I know there is a policy for features, but I am asking, can I request
> >> features now or it's too late?
> >> 
> >> Mustafa Muhammad Hadi