2010/4/2 Owen Taylor <[email protected]>: > * Virtually all machines produced currently, or in the last 5 years > have sufficiently powerful graphics to meet our needs. In some > cases, free software drivers that can access this hardware > don't exist are or still in an early stage. But we can't offer > someone with shiny new hardware a desktop that looks like they > have a 10 year old machine. > > - Buy hardware from friendly companies > - Fix the free drivers for other hardware > - If necessary and desired, offer users ways to install > non-free drivers before they get to the desktop.
I've tested gnome-shell last week on a (not too recent) machine where compiz works well enough and gnome-shell was really slow. I guess this machine falls in the "free driver that needs fixing category", but given what other colleagues experienced with a few years old machines, I'm under the impression this situation is quite common. I really hope things will get much better when release time comes, but for now, saying "any 3D hardware from the last 5 years will do" is a bit misleading since it hides the fact that gnome-shell seems more demanding on hardware/drivers than other applications (eg compiz). Or maybe it's the other way round and drivers were optimized for compiz, but it's still worth being as transparent as possible wrt current state of 3d performance expected by gnome-shell. Christophe _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
