Re: Request for removing clutter in current form

2009-09-25 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 22:30 -0400, Jud Craft wrote: Er... KVM? yes. KVM actually supports virtualization of OpenGL much better than VB and VMWare. the Moblin netbook UI, which is written using the same components (minus JavaScript) as the GNOME Shell is routinely tested under VirtualBox and

Re: Request for removing clutter in current form

2009-09-24 Thread Jud Craft
Also, does this mean that virtualization of a GNOME-shell environment is out for the near future now? ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Request for removing clutter in current form

2009-09-24 Thread Alberto Ruiz
2009/9/25 Jud Craft craft...@gmail.com: Also, does this mean that virtualization of a GNOME-shell environment is out for the near future now? OpenGL is already supported by the major desktop virtualization apps out there like VirtualBox or VMWare if that's what you mean.

Re: Request for removing clutter in current form

2009-09-24 Thread Jud Craft
Er... KVM? On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org wrote: OpenGL is already supported by the major desktop virtualization apps out there like VirtualBox or VMWare if that's what you mean. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list

Re: Request for removing clutter in current form

2009-09-13 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 07:43 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 08:03 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: Le dimanche 16 août 2009 à 23:55 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : the majority of GPUs, nowadays, work fine on Linux with open source drivers[1], and provide the basic

Re: Request for removing clutter in current form

2009-09-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 19:04 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: we do have a performance drop when compositing a GL application within a GL-based compositor under DRI2; driver developers, X developers, Clutter developers and Mutter/GNOME Shell developers are aware of this - and we are working

Re: Request for removing clutter in current form

2009-09-08 Thread Jud Craft
Don't forget that the composited desktop itself on Linux still has some inherent flaws. Like that whole video garbage thing, that still shows glitches in OpenOffice even on Fedora 11 on an Intel 965, and leaves KDE out in the cold. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/254468

Re: Request for removing clutter in current form

2009-09-08 Thread Jud Craft
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Jason D. Clintonm...@jasonclinton.com wrote: This has been fixed for quite some time including on KDE so out in the cold would be false hyperbole. I apologize. Referring to the video garbage issue, by reading the two bug reports I linked I can still see people

Re: Request for removing clutter in current form

2009-09-08 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Jud Craft craft...@gmail.com wrote: Don't forget that the composited desktop itself on Linux still has some inherent flaws. Like that whole video garbage thing, that still shows glitches in OpenOffice even on Fedora 11 on an Intel 965, and leaves KDE out in

Re: Request for removing clutter in current form

2009-09-08 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 11:24 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: Or that you run into problems on some intel cards with 3D composited desktops and multimonitor setups. (Due to the 2048x2048 problem). Or glitches in TV output. I believe that Owen

Re: Request for removing clutter in current form

2009-09-08 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 11:36 -0400, Jud Craft wrote: Or that you run into problems on some intel cards with 3D composited desktops and multimonitor setups. (Due to the 2048x2048 problem). Or glitches in TV output. Wasn't this limitation bumped to 4096x4096 on i915 (newer hardware have double

Re: Request for removing clutter in current form

2009-09-08 Thread Jud Craft
On the topic of visual garbage, I've read over all of the relevant Qt posts again for 4.6, and I do admit that it certainly seems fixed upstream [1]. My mistake for being underinformed, although the comments on bugs.kde.org and Ubuntu launchpad means that I suppose it hasn't trickled down yet, or

Re: Request for removing clutter in current form

2009-08-17 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 08:03 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: Le dimanche 16 août 2009 à 23:55 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : the majority of GPUs, nowadays, work fine on Linux with open source drivers[1], and provide the basic functionality that Clutter requires[2]. Except for some Intel

Re: Request for removing clutter in current form

2009-08-17 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 07:48 +0200, Maciej Piechotka wrote: I'd like to point out, though, that innovation cannot be driven by looking at the past; if GNOME, and the Linux desktop, want to be relevant with the users of today and tomorrow it cannot still be anchored to hardware

Re: Request for removing clutter in current form

2009-08-17 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 07:53 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 07:48 +0200, Maciej Piechotka wrote: I'd like to point out, though, that innovation cannot be driven by looking at the past; if GNOME, and the Linux desktop, want to be relevant with the users of today and

Re: Request for removing clutter in current form

2009-08-17 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 07:54 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: I know that your goals may be different that mine. I'd like to have a working desktop on computer I have right now. and it's a perfectly legitimate goal. but then you should be keeping your current desktop environment. after all,

Re: Request for removing clutter in current form

2009-08-17 Thread Patryk Zawadzki
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Emmanuele Bassieba...@gmail.com wrote: it would be interesting to have a single place where the hardware support matrix was stored -- maybe on live.gnome.org or on freedesktop.org's wiki -- and updated. So let's do it then :) I own 3 laptops: an 4-y-o one that

Re: Request for removing clutter in current form

2009-08-17 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 08:22 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: people must vote with their wallets. they must buy hardware with Linux support; and make other Linux users buy hardware with Linux support; and let vendors know that they bought or did not buy hardware because of the Linux support. I

Re: Request for removing clutter in current form

2009-08-17 Thread Javier Jardón
2009/8/17 Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com: so you're saying that only old GPUs work, and Maciej is saying that old GPUs do not work. it would be interesting to have a single place where the hardware support matrix was stored -- maybe on live.gnome.org or on freedesktop.org's wiki -- and

Re: Request for removing clutter in current form

2009-08-17 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 23:55 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: I'm usuing currently Gnome 2.27.x and I've become worried about new dependency - clutter. OpenGL traditionally have been problematic on GNU/Linux, not mentioning other *nixes. Many cards are only partially supported and/or

Re: Request for removing clutter in current form

2009-08-17 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com wrote: When I tried new clutter-based gnometris I haven't see it running at all. The main portion of screen was the previous background. While I understend that it is not a gnome bug it shows that OpenGL is not perfect even

Re: Request for removing clutter in current form

2009-08-16 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 12:12 +0200, Maciej Piechotka wrote: I'm sorry I'm posting it on wrong list. yes, you probably wanted to mail to desktop-devel-list instead of gnome-devel. I'm usuing currently Gnome 2.27.x and I've become worried about new dependency - clutter. OpenGL traditionally

Re: Request for removing clutter in current form

2009-08-16 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 23:55 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 12:12 +0200, Maciej Piechotka wrote: I'm sorry I'm posting it on wrong list. yes, you probably wanted to mail to desktop-devel-list instead of gnome-devel. Ups. Sorry. I'm usuing currently Gnome 2.27.x

Re: Request for removing clutter in current form

2009-08-16 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le dimanche 16 août 2009 à 23:55 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : the majority of GPUs, nowadays, work fine on Linux with open source drivers[1], and provide the basic functionality that Clutter requires[2]. Except for some Intel cards, that's not true by a long shot. Only very old ATI cards