[Mageia-dev] Features

Wed Jan 16 16:18:54 CET 2013

On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 05:56:34 PM Mustafa Muhammad wrote:
+> On 01/15/2013 03:42 PM, Thomas Backlund wrote:
+> > Mustafaa Al-Hamdaani skrev 15.1.2013 14:35:
+> >> Hi,
+> >> Are features still accepted for Mageia 3? I have these three:
+> >> 1) Enable vertical two finger scrolling by default, simple but
+> >> important.
+> >> 2) Desktop greeter (like kaptan of pardus or its fork for Chakra,
+> >> kapudan):
+> >> http://www.chakra-linux.org/wiki/index.php/Kapudan
+> >> 3) catalyst-legacy for AMD cards 4xxx and before.
+> > 
+> > This one depends on AMD.
+> > They have not released any legacy driver since 12.6 last summer,
+> > and that is not supporting x11-server 1.13 we use.
+> 
+> I know, I just hoped we can ship x11-server 1.12 and 1.13 and only one
+> of them is installed, the power consumption with the open source drivers
+> is just insane, especially for a laptop (and the quality too).
+> 
+I asked yesterday and the answer was "too late", but if this is technically 
+possible, I think it will make a huge difference for a big number of Mageia 
+users, maybe 25% of all users use those AMD cards, so please would you 
+reconsider shipping catalyst-legacy if it is technically feasible.
+For such a benefit for the community, I think it worth considering (from 
+catalyst maintainer and others).
+
+> >> I know there is a policy for features, but I am asking, can I request
+> >> features now or it's too late?
+> >> 
+> >> Mustafa Muhammad Hadi
+