On Friday, 14 January, 2011 04:49 AM, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
Do we have a very good fully open source drivers available?On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 18:11 +0000, Adam Williamson wrote:Sure. It's a fallback, not a feature. It'd just mean that 'my graphics card driver sucks' results in 'I can run Shell' (as long as the system's got a decent CPU) rather than 'hello, gnome-panel!'.One thing that bothers me is that gnome-shell is doing compositing/scaling that is not much more sophisticated than the original MacOS X (which had software-only rendering) and yet it requires a very good graphics driver. I remember I was able to run OSX (some say legal if you are a Mac developer) many years ago, inThose boxes had very slow processors by today's standards, and yet they were perfectly usable. Not blindingly fast, but perfectly usable, with compositing and animations and such. a Pentium 4 2.8GHz HT(CPU) with only 128MB nvidia GPU. The usual effects you have in Mac computers are the same, very smooth(only few artefacts) even without an nvidia driver installed. I'm all for using graphics hardware as well and as thoroughly as we can. But it bothers me that we may be able to do all that gnome-shell needs, in software, and we are not pursuing that route yet. Maybe someone will :) Federico _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list |