On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 06:56:55PM -0500, andre999 wrote: > Olav Vitters a écrit : > >fyi > Sujet: fallback mode > De: Matthias Clasen <[email protected]> > Date: 2012-11-05 10:42 > Pour: [email protected] > Copie: GNOME release team <[email protected]> > > I'm writing to inform you that the release team discussed > https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointSeven/Features/DropOrFixFallbackMode > yesterday. We've come to the conclusion that we can't maintain > fallback mode in reasonable quality, and are better off dropping it. > > > > Really short-sighted, if the display performance problems aren't solved. > The processor-intensive extras are really just eye candy, and should > be optional, depending on the resources available. Instead of > forcing software emulation of hardware acceleration of display in > order to use regular (non-fallback) mode, it should instead use > hardware acceleration if available only where it could produce > significant performance gains. > And certainly not for display in a virtual console, which becomes > extremely slow.
This discussion has been held various times before. Please read the wiki link. The reason I'm forwarding the email is to get feedback about the impact on Mageia. > The reorganization of the default screen layout can be largely > reverted if desired by ajusting the configuration and/or using > already available extensions, so that isn't a problem. > Although the configuration programs don't yet work coherently, and > some aspects don't work at all (at least in fallback mode which I'm > forced to use.) Fallback mode is supposed to work exactly like GNOME shell. It doesn't in practice, but that was not the intention. > The tablet-style gtk+ themes currently available are anything but > user-friendly for those who want a readable compact space-efficient > display on normal sized displays. But that is bound to improve, as > more gtk+2 themes are ported to gtk+3. > (But the light-switch-type icons in place of check boxes is weird > and easily misunderstood.) > As one gnome developer said recently in his blog, the gnome > interface design team are seriously out of touch with those who work > on their computer. I don't think that bit is ontopic for a Mageia development list. -- Regards, Olav
