Re: Module Proposal: GNOME Shell

2010-04-02 Thread Naba Kumar
Hi Owen, On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Owen Taylor otay...@redhat.com wrote: Purpose:  GNOME Shell takes  advantage of the capabilities of modern graphics hardware ... Does gnome-shell work without graphics capabilities? A few days back I tried it from ubuntu karmic repository (so the

Re: Module Proposal: GNOME Shell

2010-04-02 Thread Owen Taylor
On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 11:19 +0300, Naba Kumar wrote: Hi Owen, On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Owen Taylor otay...@redhat.com wrote: Purpose: GNOME Shell takes advantage of the capabilities of modern graphics hardware ... Does gnome-shell work without graphics capabilities? A few

Re: Module Proposal: GNOME Shell

2010-04-02 Thread Piñeiro
From: Owen Taylor otay...@redhat.com At a technical level, once he finishes up his current immediate work on the message tray Dan Winship is going to dedicate a chunk of time (probably around a month or so) to pushing things forward. What exactly he works is going to depend on further

Re: Module Proposal: GNOME Shell

2010-04-02 Thread Naba Kumar
Hi Owen, Thanks for explanation. I am sure even if there are cases where 3d acceleration is not available, one could still use metacity as alternative. On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Owen Taylor otay...@redhat.com wrote:  * There is zero reason that virtual machines can't also have 3D  

Re: Module Proposal: GNOME Shell

2010-04-02 Thread Johannes Schmid
Hi Naba! Does gnome-shell work without graphics capabilities? No, you need a hardware accelerated graphic card. So, basically my question is do you have official plan to support non-accelerated machines, or is it just a bug? I guess there are still legitimate use of non-accelerated

Re: Module Proposal: GNOME Shell

2010-04-02 Thread Alan Cox
maintained for people without the correct hardware support. As of now, all intel, amd/ati and nvidia cards sold in the last five years should I don't believe that is correct for any of the listed vendors even on Linux. On BSD the situation is even more patchy. Is Gnome dropping support for