[Mageia-dev] Fwd: fallback mode

Tue Nov 6 01:02:34 CET 2012

On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 06:56:55PM -0500, andre999 wrote:
+> Olav Vitters a écrit :
+> >fyi
+> Sujet: fallback mode
+> De: Matthias Clasen <matthias.clasen at gmail.com>
+> Date: 2012-11-05 10:42
+> Pour: distributor-list at gnome.org
+> Copie: GNOME release team <release-team at gnome.org>
+> 
+> I'm writing to inform you that the release team discussed
+> https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointSeven/Features/DropOrFixFallbackMode
+> yesterday. We've come to the conclusion that we can't maintain
+> fallback mode in reasonable quality, and are better off dropping it.
+> >
+> 
+> Really short-sighted, if the display performance problems aren't solved.
+> The processor-intensive extras are really just eye candy, and should
+> be optional, depending on the resources available.  Instead of
+> forcing software emulation of hardware acceleration of display in
+> order to use regular (non-fallback) mode, it should instead use
+> hardware acceleration if available only where it could produce
+> significant performance gains.
+> And certainly not for display in a virtual console, which becomes
+> extremely slow.
+
+This discussion has been held various times before. Please read the wiki
+link. The reason I'm forwarding the email is to get feedback about the
+impact on Mageia.
+
+> The reorganization of the default screen layout can be largely
+> reverted if desired by ajusting the configuration and/or using
+> already available extensions, so that isn't a problem.
+> Although the configuration programs don't yet work coherently, and
+> some aspects don't work at all (at least in fallback mode which I'm
+> forced to use.)
+
+Fallback mode is supposed to work exactly like GNOME shell. It doesn't
+in practice, but that was not the intention.
+
+> The tablet-style gtk+ themes currently available are anything but
+> user-friendly for those who want a readable compact space-efficient
+> display on normal sized displays.  But that is bound to improve, as
+> more gtk+2 themes are ported to gtk+3.
+> (But the light-switch-type icons in place of check boxes is weird
+> and easily misunderstood.)
+> As one gnome developer said recently in his blog, the gnome
+> interface design team are seriously out of touch with those who work
+> on their computer.
+
+I don't think that bit is ontopic for a Mageia development list.
+-- 
+Regards,
+Olav
+