On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > * Moblin, which was also based on Clutter, worked without hardware > acceleration (admittedly not particularly fast, but usable). > > * The visual effects in GNOME Shell don't look much beyond what Doom > 2 was doing on my completely unaccelerated 486 fifteen years ago, > albeit with a lower resolution. Furthermore, most of the time it is running > with windows mapped one-to-one. Surely an optimised path would be > possible for this case? I assume (am I wrong?) that that would be a > Clutter issue, not a GNOME Shell one. I think that with this fixed, I could > happily live with slower, software rendered zooming windows (and I > suspect that the Clutter folks would quickly find some way to make it > work faster in software too). >
This has been done in existing window managers too. See e17/e16 (enlightenment). All of it's effects are done in software, and run smoothly on old hardware as well. However, that kind of thing took a lot of dedicated effort on the part of the developers (doing this was one of their primary aims). Doing the same in gnome-shell/mutter would require massive re-orientation of goals; which I suppose is too late to do now. Such efforts *could* be directed in improving the software rasteriser in Mesa; but that would probably require a lot of effort as well. Most likely it's cheaper overall to just buy new hardware. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
