[Mageia-dev] Features

Wed Jan 16 16:43:36 CET 2013

Colin Guthrie skrev 16.1.2013 17:34:
+> '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.
+>
+
+or ever...
+
+> 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.
+>
+
+There is way too much stuff integrated / interacting with x11-server,
+to sanely provide 2 of them without introducing regressions on
+either side...
+
+> Perhaps someone can do some clever edits on the binaries to make them
+> work with the newer xserver...
+
+Nope. No can do... that would violate the license.
+
+--
+Thomas
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