Brian: As Alan mentioned, we have software fall back solution for OpenGL accelerate if the hardware one doesn't present. Since Clutter is using OpenGL for rendering, if the admin manually remove the GL library, it will fail.
Chris Brian Cameron ??: > > I do not see any information to explain how Clutter will work (or fail > to work) when OpenGL is not available on a particular system. From the > materials provided, it seems like OpenGL is a hard requirement. How > will programs behave if they use Clutter on systems that don't have > OpenGL? > > Brian > > > Shi-Ying Irene Huang wrote: >> Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.66 04/17/08 SMI >> This information is Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems >> 1. Introduction >> 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: >> Clutter for OpenSolaris >> 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: >> Author: Chris Wang >> 1.3 Date of This Document: >> 07 July, 2008 >> 4. Technical Description >> 1. Introduction >> 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: Clutter for Solaris >> 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: Chris Wang 1.3. Date of This >> Document: 07/03/08 >> 1.5. Email Aliases: >> 1.5.1. Responsible Manager: leo.binchy at sun.com >> 1.5.2. Responsible Engineer: chris.wang at sun.com, >> 2. Project Summary >> 2.1. Project Description: >> Clutter is an open source software library for creating fast, >> visually rich and animated graphical user interfaces. >> >> Clutter uses OpenGL for rendering but with an API which hides the >> underlying GL complexity >> from the developer. The Clutter API is intended to be easy to use, >> efficient and flexible. >> >> >> >> 4. Technical Description: >> 4.1. Details: >> Clutter currently features the following: >> >> * Scene-graph of layered 2D interface elements manipulated in 3D >> space via position, grouping, >> transparency, scaling, clipping and rotation. >> * Frame based animation engine providing path interpolation, >> transitions and other custom >> effects via Behaviours and Timelines. >> * Scriptable JSON based layout and animation file support. >> * Advanced input event handling. >> * Custom Pango renderer providing efficient internationalised UTF8 >> text rendering. >> * Support for high end Open GL features such as Shaders and FBOs. >> * Support for media playback with GStreamer, Cairo graphics rendering >> and GTK+ embedding >> are available via optional add-on libraries. >> * Object oriented design via GObject with a familiar GTK+ like API. >> Clutter aims to be non specific -- it implements no particular style, >> but rather provides >> a rich generic foundation that facilitates rapid and easy creation of >> higher level tool kits >> tailored to specific needs. >> 4.5. Interfaces: >> Exported interfaces: >> Interface Stability Comment >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> SUNWclutter Uncommitted SVr4 package SUNWclutter-cairo Uncommitted >> SVr4 package SUNWclutter-gtk Uncommitted SVr4 package SUNWclutter-gst >> Uncommitted SVr4 package >> SUNWclutter-devel Uncommitted devel package >> SUNWclutter-cairo-devel Uncommitted devel package >> SUNWclutter-gst-devel Uncommitted devel pacakge >> SUNWclutter-gtk Uncommitted devel package >> /usr/lib/libclutter-glx-0.6.so.0 Volatile Clutter lib >> /usr/lib/libclutter-gst-0.6.so.0 Volatile Clutter gst lib >> /usr/lib/libclutter-gtk-0.6.so.0 Volatile Clutter gtk lib >> /usr/lib/libclutter-cairo-0.6.so.0 Volatile Clutter cairo lib >> /usr/include/clutter-0.6 Volatile Clutter headfiles directory >> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/clutter-0.6.pc Uncommitted Clutter .pc file >> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/clutter-cairo-0.6.pc Uncommitted Clutter .pc file >> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/clutter-glx-0.6.pc Uncommitted Clutter .pc file >> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/clutter-gtk-0.6.pc Uncommitted Clutter .pc file >> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/clutter-x11-0.6.pc Uncommitted Clutter .pc file >> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/clutter-gst-0.6.pc Uncommitted Clutter .pc file >> Imported Interfaces Interface Stability Comments >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> GNOME Committed Platform Libraries Committed LSARC/2007/520 GTK+ library >> GNOME 2.20 OpenGL External LSARC 2005/109, >> LSARC/2005/700, LSARC/1999/410 >> >> 4.9. I18N/L10N Impact: >> The JDS team and the G11N are working together to evaluation and >> provide I18N/L10N support >> 4.10. Packaging & Delivery: >> The project will be delivering the following packages: >> SUNWclutter, SUNWclutter-devel, SUNWclutter-cairo, >> SUNWclutter-cairo-devel >> SUNWclutter-gtk, SUNWclutter-gtk-devel, SUNWclutter-gst, >> SUNWclutter-gst-devel 4.11. Security Impact: >> No impact >> 5. Reference Documents: >> Unless otherwise stated, path names are relative to the case directory >> 1. SUNWclutter, SUNWclutter-gtk SUNWclutter-cairo, SUNWclutter-gst >> SVr4 packaging information >> pkgmap >> pkginfo >> depend >> 2. Clutter community >> http://clutter-project.org/ >> 3. API reference >> http://clutter-project.org/docs/clutter/0.6/ >> >> 6. Resources and Schedule >> 6.4. Steering Committee requested information >> 6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name: >> Desktop >> 6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack >> 6.6. ARC Exposure: open >> >
