Re: Module Proposal: GNOME Shell

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 21:51 +0000, Michael wrote:

> Owen Taylor <otaylor <at> redhat.com> writes:
> > On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 11:19 +0300, Naba Kumar wrote:
> > > Does gnome-shell work without graphics capabilities? A few days back I
> > > tried it from ubuntu karmic repository (so the release might be a bit
> > > old), but it didn't work without graphics acceleration support.
> > We've always planned to require graphics acceleration.
> This may just be me being slow, but I don't quite get this dependency,
> for the following reasons:
> 
> * Moblin, which was also based on Clutter, worked without hardware
> acceleration (admittedly not particularly fast, but usable).

*wrong*.

Moblin on netbooks required hardware acceleration.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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