Re: Improving stability in Vinux testing repo by dropping GTK+ patches

[Alan Bell <alan bell theopenlearningcentre com>]

On 23/01/11 17:47, Bill Cox wrote:
> While we lack developers in Vinux land, we do have a fair number of
> very good testers.  I've been trying to get Natty up and running -
> other Vinux devs have already succeeded.  However, I'm having trouble
> with VirtualBox not being able to do 3D acceleration on my machine.
> Like other people with some vision impairments, I'm a bit gun-shy
> about switching my main machine to a native install of unstable
> versions.  As soon as I can figure this out, I'll start testing.
Unity uses a bit more of the OpenGL api than regular Compiz and only 
works for me using Oracle VirtualBox 4.0 which is the binary .deb 
download which is free as in beer and is almost the same as VirtualBox 
Open Source Edition which is Free as in Speech. To set expectations, it 
is becoming less broken all the time now, and is approaching the point 
of usability for unimpaired and patient people. Accessibility features 
are beginning to turn up and I expect this to follow a process of 
improvements that will head towards a point of working well for all 
users, but it won't start that way.

Alan.