Re: gnome-shell freeze break request

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 2:23 PM, drago01 <drago01 gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to get the patch from
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=696404 into 3.8 it fixes a
> regression where
> opening the application view in the overview (or any other shell UI
> where we use the edge fade effect) can cause a
> 30 second lag for every paint on older hardware.
>
> The patch from the bug just reverts the behavior to what we had in
> 3.6, so it is low (~0) risk. We can revisit for 3.10
> once / if we have a fixed mesa but for now this is the best thing to do.

Thats the responsible thing to do. Approval 1 for the release team