Re: Metacity, Mutter, GNOME Shell, GNOME-2.28

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Owen:

> I just don't think it makes sense to code GNOME Shell to the limitations
> of other pieces of the software stack. The effort to fix the other
> pieces of the stack - to create free software ways of doing thin clients
> with a composited snazzy desktop - is going to be comparable or less
> then the extra effort we'd need to put into GNOME Shell, and the end
> result is much better.
>
> And the same applies to virtualized desktops, but more so. Don't put the
> effort into avoiding 3D. Put the effort into making 3D work.

As a general rule, I agree with you.  However, there are bound to be a
few 3D features that do not work well in low-network-latency
environments.  I think it would be unreasonable to expect that such
users (and users in general) won't want some degree of configuration
control to make the desktop as usable as possible.

However, such configuration should obviously be kept to a minimum and
only when there is a strong use case for supporting it, I'd think.

Brian