On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 04:12:46PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > 88 Core packages, 22 apps. I don't really like their packaging. Some > packages that they label 'core' don't seem to be required, e.g. metacity > is one that jumped out at me. > On my hardware (cheap AGP radeon cards - R100 and R200), it can't run clutter apps so it falls back to metacity which is very usable.
Actually, I can run gnome-shell directly, but performance is very slow on anything graphical such as using the toolbar options, so I don't dispute that it shouldn't run clutter apps such as mutter (the other wm). Under mutter, even playing video on vlc has the same issues that I noticed with totem on my other box (i.e. you get an irregular slideshow, although the sound is ok). So, I'll be noting the video requirements for clutter in appropriate places. The way Wayne has split things up, I guess people with good enough graphics hardware can omit the fallback apps. There was one definite runtime dependency with metacity (notification-daemon) which fell into the "required, but not a specific dependency" category when I found it. Didn't seem to need it when I had run gnome-shell directly (while trying to work out why metacity wouldn't run: I was apparently misled into thinking it was an icon problem). ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
