On 23/04/2010 04:05, Brian Cameron wrote:
2.2.4 GNOME Shell and OpenGL
GNOME Shell will likely be the default window manager from GNOME 3.0
and it requires OpenGL support. This may be a problem for environments
that do not support OpenGL such as Sun Ray. To solve the problem, the
GNOME community proposes that GNOME 2 will still be available in long
term stable maintenance mode. Environments lacking of OpenGL support
can continue to use GNOME 2. The Desktop team is working with the
upstream community to determine the best course of action to provide a
modern desktop on systems without OpenGL support.
Not relevant to this case review since it is about a future release.
If GNOME Shell is "just" the window manager, ie replaces metacity then
can't systems not wanting to (or unable to)use OpenGL window managers
continue to use metacity (or some other lighter weight WM) but have the
rest of GNOME 3 ?
2.2.5 The adoption of upower and udisks
From GNOME 2.28, GNOME community starts to use upower and udisks
(previously called DeviceKit-power and DeviceKit-disks) to replace HAL.
A significant amount of work has been done for GNOME 2.30 and the
dependency of HAL will be fully removed in GNOME 3.0.
Gnome-power-manager now depends on upower and has abandoned the
dependency of HAL. Because upower is not shipped in Solaris currently,
we plan to continue to ship gnome-power-manager 2.24 in GNOME 2.30.
Other applications still depend on HAL optionally for GNOME 2.30. So
this is not a big issue for now, but may be a risk for the integration
of some GNOME components in the future.
So what work needs to be funded in the desktop consolidation and other
consolidations to allow the move away from HAL to upower/udisks ?
This seems like potential ARC opinion fodder, but only necessary if the
coordination hasn't already been discussed between the relevant
engineering teams (basically no need for an opinion just for this).
--
Darren J Moffat
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