Re: Gnome-shell not for netbook?

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

Hi,

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Bob Hazard <linuxoflondon googlemail com> wrote:
>
> I came back to shell after a month away because of reinstalling and it
> has even started lagging on my desktop Geforce 8800 since the hot
> corner effects.  I should imagine that if old hardware can run compiz
> then it should be fine.

That's correct; the combination of compiz+gnome-panel is roughly
speaking our target performance baseline.  We are not presently
meeting that baseline, but as we flesh out more features we will turn
to performance work to ensure we do.