[Mageia-dev] Fwd: fallback mode

Tue Nov 6 01:09:21 CET 2012

On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 12:56:05AM +0100, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
+> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl> wrote:
+> >
+> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
+> > From: Matthias Clasen <matthias.clasen at gmail.com>
+> > To: distributor-list at gnome.org
+> > Cc: GNOME release team <release-team at gnome.org>
+> > [...]
+> > - move background rendering entirely into gnome-shell; this is most
+> > likely to cause some problems for other environments that reuse g-s-d
+> > for background rendering. Splitting off the desktop-rendering
+> > functionality from nautilus is a separate issue, and does not
+> > necessarily have to happen for 3.8.
+> 
+> Please clarify whether that means no more desktop-icons.
+
+They're planning to kill off the bit in Nautilus which can draw the
+background and put that functionality in a new process/module. So
+Nautilus won't do it anymore, but some other process would. No clue if
+that includes the desktop icons… this splitting off was meant to help
+Unity as they seem to depend on this functionality.
+
+It seems Unity is planning to not rely on this functionality from
+Nautilus, so the thought was that maybe it can just be killed. I can ask
+to still do the work because some people make use of this in GNOME 3.
+
+In any case, the splitting off is not a priority at the moment as it
+would just move code around while potentially introducing bugs. Benefit
+is easing Nautilus maintenance.
+
+-- 
+Regards,
+Olav
+