On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 18:41 +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote: > 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.
There is very little that GNOME Shell does that makes it *inherently* more demanding than Compiz. > 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. As described in the roadmap, the necessary first step is obtaining numbers. - Owen _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
