[Mageia-dev] Features

Wed Jan 16 16:34:12 CET 2013

'Twas brillig, and mustafaa1987 at yahoo.com at 16/01/13 15:18 did gyre and
+gimble:
+> 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).
+
+Being realistic, shipping two x servers is simply not going to happen in
+time.
+
+It'll need lots of extra work including more h/w detection and automatic
+installation of the legacy x server (assuming the user wants the
+proprietary drivers only, the free drivers will of course want the
+latest xserver instead).
+
+I feel it's just too much complication at this late stage to do this.
+
+Perhaps someone can do some clever edits on the binaries to make them
+work with the newer xserver...
+
+Col
+
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+Colin Guthrie
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