[Mageia-dev] Fwd: fallback mode

Tue Nov 6 01:33:43 CET 2012

Olav Vitters a écrit :
+> On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 06:56:55PM -0500, andre999 wrote:
+>> Olav Vitters a écrit :
+...
+>
+> 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.
+>
+For the impact on Mageia, I think that depends entirely on how they deal 
+with the display performance issue.  Gnome3 should display efficiently 
+on hardware without accelerated display, particularly for text display. 
+  Software emulation of hardware acceleration should only be used where 
+strictly necessary.
+
+Nothing in the visual appearance of gnome3 could not be displayed 
+efficiently on gnome2 on machines without hardware acceleration of 
+display, so there is obviously a problem with the implementation in 
+gnome3, at least up to version 3.4
+
+If this isn't solved, many gnome users in Mageia will be forced to 
+migrate to another desktop.  This could also affect gnome users that 
+have one or more of several machines affected, but want to keep all 
+machines on the same desktop, for ease of maintenance.
+
+Every other aspect of changes introduced gnome3 can (or inevitably will) 
+be solved.
+(I have already worked around most problems, and could readily document 
+that for others if desired.)
+
+It might be useful to migrate gnome3 to fallback mode, instead of the 
+inverse.  That is, modify fallback mode so that it can perform all the 
+functions now in regular gnome3, including using hardware acceleration 
+of display where available.  Thus using the current regular gnome3 as a 
+testing ground for development of the current fallback mode.
+
+-- 
+André
+