On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 13:57 +0200, Frederic Peters wrote: > > > Is Gnome dropping support for these operating systems ? > > I am sorry my only answer at the moment is "I wish not", but I am not > familiar enough with the state of graphic drivers, not even on Linux, > to know how wishful thinking it is.
For a modern computing environment, access to hardware graphics acceleration is a must-have requirement. OS X and Windows 7 both require hardware graphics acceleration to enable their full user experience. Where they have the option (and I think only Windows 7 does this), they degrade to what is essentially a "legacy" mode. We've seen with the Compiz project how lower level support can be improved once a requirement is made. The chicken and egg situation has to be broken at some point and I think GNOME 3 gives a good opportunity to do that. Regards, Thomas _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
