Re: Applications Compatibility

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 00:30 -0400, jordan wrote:
> > This is one I think is a valid concern,  I will also be using Multimedia
> > apps for recording and it looks like GNOME Shell is not the right _desktop_
> > _shell_ at this rate. I remember one poster here who complains, but with no
> > solution for the moment, and for sure he switch to another DE. So my
> > question is, how is GNOME shell was designed from the ground-up with
> > compatibility between applications especially for those 3D apps? Is this a
> > valid concern? I hope for 3.2 things will get easier.
> I've had issues in with 3D acceleration, on my 2 desktop machines
> (nvidia)... Some applications i use, recommend not using compositors
> at all.... however, compiz plays quite nice and works, so i use it -

I've had the opposite experience.  With compiz and multi-head (second
display) acceleration usually got disabled and was at best hit-n-miss.
GNOME3 is now working with a second display [not in fail-over mode]
which is much appreciated.  For me GNOME3's OpenGL based shell seems
both faster and more robust than compiz + GNOME2.