[Mageia-dev] Features

[Thomas Backlund]

Colin Guthrie skrev 16.1.2013 17:34:
> 'Twas brillig, and mustafaa1987 at yahoo.com at 16/01/13 15:18 did gyre and
> gimble:
>> 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).
>
> Being realistic, shipping two x servers is simply not going to happen in
> time.
>

or ever...

> It'll need lots of extra work including more h/w detection and automatic
> installation of the legacy x server (assuming the user wants the
> proprietary drivers only, the free drivers will of course want the
> latest xserver instead).
>
> I feel it's just too much complication at this late stage to do this.
>

There is way too much stuff integrated / interacting with x11-server,
to sanely provide 2 of them without introducing regressions on
either side...

> Perhaps someone can do some clever edits on the binaries to make them
> work with the newer xserver...

Nope. No can do... that would violate the license.

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Thomas