[Mageia-dev] Fwd: fallback mode

Tue Nov 6 10:01:33 CET 2012

On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 07:33:43PM -0500, andre999 wrote:
+> 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.
+
+In case the drivers are not good enough, GNOME 3 will be unusable.
+Something that another distribution brought up is that ideally something
+like that should be detected during installation, so that this can be
+taken into account up-front.
+
+> 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.
+
+I again suggest to read the wiki page for the issues with fallback mode.
+
+-- 
+Regards,
+Olav
+