[Mageia-dev] Gnome mess in Mageia SVN...

Sun Mar 3 04:42:08 CET 2013

Sebastian a écrit :
+> On 28/02/13 02:47, andre999 wrote:
+>> Colin Guthrie a écrit :
+>> ...
+>>>
+>>> I wonder how we could attract more Gnome, erm, gnomes :) to help with
+>>> packaging?
+>>>
+>>> Col
+>>>
+>>
+...
+>>
+>> I'm very interested in helping with gnome packaging/development, since
+>> I'm a long time user of gnome.  (I still have to finish qualifying as
+>> a packager.)
+> Ok awesome that you would like to help package GNOME into Mageia :)!
+
+That's a major reason why I moved to Mageia -- as well as all the 
+important mdv contributors that I knew of moving over ...
+
+>>
+>> BTW, I hope that mga3 sticks with 3.6, at least at first.
+> There is no "at first" it is either released with 3.6.2 and stays using
+> that :( or hopefully uses the GNOME 3.8 series instead for the release :)!
+
+Wasn't there a suggestion of possibly providing gnome 3.8 as an update 
+if released with gnome 3.6 ?
+
+>>
+>> Until the "legacy" (classic/fallback) mode is stablised, and hopefully
+>> that those now using the fallback mode for hardware reasons aren't
+>> subjected to the snail pace of the current llvm emulation alternative.
+>>
+> I finally saw all of the video of the GNOME talk last  night that I
+> missed at FOSDEM, since ended up else where instead:
+> http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/fosdem-video/2013/maintracks/Janson/Has_the_GNOME_community_gone_crazy_.webm
+> If people watch from 29:50 the new classic mode gets mentioend again,
+> followed by how GNOME should work well enough now for most users without
+> 3D acceleration as well.  Before that section is also the part about how
+> GNOME uses SystemD now to an extent, but it can work without that as well.
+>
+> As for llmpipe I have not had loads of slowness with it when running
+> GNOME Shell.
+
+On my previous computer running mga2 with gnome 3.6, a portable without 
+3D acceleration, a 80x24 text page in the console took about 30 seconds 
+to display in gnome shell using llvmpipe -- definitely a show-stopper
+Under gnome-classic, typically maybe a second to display the same page.
+However if this problem is resolved, and the option of legacy mode is 
+available as an option at login, I agree that it would be a good idea to 
+release mga3 with gnome 3.8
+The same computer could fairly quickly build (smaller) packages, so it 
+had enough power for normal use.
+(Until disk failure in November.  I haven't found a physically 
+compatible replacement disk.)
+My replacement computer has 3D acceleration, so it doesn't need 
+llvmpipe.  (But I still use classic mode, which I reconfigure to have a 
+single bar on top.)
+
+Recently I noticed that gnome-shell is called mobile or iphone or tablet 
+mode by a number of commentators.  It certainly doesn't seem appropriate 
+for desktop or laptop usage.
+
+>
+> Andre by the way in your other email to this thread your message didn't
+> seem to show.
+
+I had accidently double-clicked when opening the previous email :/
+
+-- 
+André
+