Re: Dropping fallback mode in 3.8
- From: Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>
- To: Raphaël Jacquot <sxpert sxpert org>
- Cc: desktop-devel-list <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Dropping fallback mode in 3.8
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 21:10:42 +0000
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 21:50:37 +0100
Raphaël Jacquot <sxpert sxpert org> wrote:
>
> On 21 nov. 2012, at 21:31, Alberto Ruiz <aruiz gnome org> wrote:
>
> > A "classic mode" for GNOME Shell could make use of less expensive effects that could relieve the software rendenrer making the experience a lot nicer on machines with driver problems (or other cases where native GL could not be provided).
>
> sounds like a rather good option, how about asking on firstboot, when detecting hardware that could be rather slow, an option to cut all the nice bling, so as to save cpu/gpu cycles...
That ought to be happening automatically based upon timing the effects
and also on things like battery life. 3D compositing is a video memory
hog and that has material power impact.
Alan
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