On 2011-05-25 at 14:46, Shu Hung (Koala) wrote: > Just a quick curious question: will there be a 2D fallback for Gnome Shell? > > Unity has Unity 2D for the fallback interface. They're not identical, but > look and work similarly. To my understanding, Gnome Shell can only fallback > to Gnome panel, which is different from Gnome Shell. That could confuse > users with no OpenGL supporting hardware. I supposed it would be better to > have an identical 2D fallback.
you cannot have an *identical*, non-hardware accelerated fallback. gnome-panel in fallback mode retains most of the appearance as possible from the shell, but the user experience *by necessity* is different. the usage of hardware acceleration (let's drop this "2D, 3D" monikers) is integral to the overall user experience of gnome-shell. it is possible to have software rendering, with non-awful performance, but, as it turns out, you CPU makes a crappy GPU replacement. ciao, Emmanuele. -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
