Re: My thoughts on fallback mode

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 23:10 +0100, Mario Blättermann wrote:

> On my five
> years old IBM Thinkpad T41 with ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 I cannot use
> gnome-shell. Only black windows... On the other hand, Compiz with most
> of its nice features works fine.

this is a bug.

Mutter does not require anything more than Compiz; in fact, it should
work exactly as well as Compiz.

>  That's why we *must* provide an
> appropriate clutter-less fallback mode for the GNOME 3 lifecycle (yes,
> for the whole cycle!).

sure. feel free to step in and maintain the fallback components.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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