On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 07:33:43PM -0500, andre999 wrote: > Olav Vitters a écrit : > >On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 06:56:55PM -0500, andre999 wrote: > >>Olav Vitters a écrit : > ... > > > >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. > > > For the impact on Mageia, I think that depends entirely on how they > deal with the display performance issue. Gnome3 should display > efficiently on hardware without accelerated display, particularly > for text display. Software emulation of hardware acceleration > should only be used where strictly necessary.
In case the drivers are not good enough, GNOME 3 will be unusable. Something that another distribution brought up is that ideally something like that should be detected during installation, so that this can be taken into account up-front. > It might be useful to migrate gnome3 to fallback mode, instead of > the inverse. That is, modify fallback mode so that it can perform > all the functions now in regular gnome3, including using hardware > acceleration of display where available. Thus using the current > regular gnome3 as a testing ground for development of the current > fallback mode. I again suggest to read the wiki page for the issues with fallback mode. -- Regards, Olav
