Re: Gnome Shell 2D?

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On 2011-05-25 at 14:46, Shu Hung (Koala) wrote:
> Just a quick curious question: will there be a 2D fallback for Gnome Shell?
> 
> Unity has Unity 2D for the fallback interface. They're not identical, but
> look and work similarly. To my understanding, Gnome Shell can only fallback
> to Gnome panel, which is different from Gnome Shell. That could confuse
> users with no OpenGL supporting hardware. I supposed it would be better to
> have an identical 2D fallback.

you cannot have an *identical*, non-hardware accelerated fallback.

gnome-panel in fallback mode retains most of the appearance as possible
from the shell, but the user experience *by necessity* is different. the
usage of hardware acceleration (let's drop this "2D, 3D" monikers) is
integral to the overall user experience of gnome-shell.

it is possible to have software rendering, with non-awful performance,
but, as it turns out, you CPU makes a crappy GPU replacement.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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