Re: [orca-list] is ubuntu 11.04 worth a try with Orca?

[Alan Bell <alanbell ubuntu com>]

On 25/04/11 12:19, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > Personally I am OK in general terms with not supporting older or low
> > spec computers, it wouldn't bother me if they just didn't do Unity 2d at
> > all and said "if you want to use Ubuntu you need 3d capable hardware".
> Which might leave people in developing nations out of luck, thus
> furthering the digital divide rather than bridging it. Not very much in
> keeping with the spirit of ubuntu (the philosophy).
out of luck, or using software contemporary with their hardware. My OLPC 
XO-1 isn't going to work with Unity 3d, and probably won't work with 
Unity 2d as I think that needs 2d accelerated compositing support and 
the Ubuntu kernel has already dropped support for the AMD Geode chip 
(although this may have crept back in again, it comes and goes). I use 
it with the Fedora kernel and Gnome desktop, don't think that computer 
is going to get much of a software refresh in the future, but it works 
great with what it has got.

> Personally, I'd much rather see an accessible 2d Unity so that everyone
> who wants (or needs) the latest features can have them.
that would be good, if there really was one Unity program with a 2d and 
3d rendering path, so that everything worked the same on both and things 
like keyboard shortcuts were defined once and worked on both. I think 
there may well be an effort to keep things consistent, however I think 
architecturally they are two different programs which is a bit of a 
recipe for failure (although we might make it work).

Alan.