contributions from new members

2010-10-18 Thread Jonh Wendell
Hello, folks. This subject was already discussed here, but we still see the issue, so, I'm raising it again. Dear Membership Committee, When someone applies to be a Foundation member[1], [s]he fills a form with his/her list of contributions to GNOME. The person [s]he informed as contact to supp

Re: SiS video cards and GNOME 3

2010-10-18 Thread Stormy Peters
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 11:19 -0300, Jonh Wendell wrote: > > > 2) Talk to SiS to solve the problem > > > > Ideas, suggestions? > > Given the statements at: > http://ncc-1701a.homelinux.net/~linux-sis/index.php?page=Preface > and the statemen

Re: SiS video cards and GNOME 3

2010-10-18 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 11:19 -0300, Jonh Wendell wrote: > Hi, folks. > > As some of you might already know, the average computer in Brazil is > shipped with SiS video card. Which doesn't have a proper X driver. So, > most people in Brazil will not be able to run gnome-shell. They will > simply not

Re: SiS video cards and GNOME 3

2010-10-18 Thread Johannes Schmid
Hi! > 3) Build more elegant fallback modes into gnome-shell so that you don't lose > all the functionality altogether, similar to the approach Windows and OS X > took when they first introduced features into their desktop that required a > minimum level of graphics card support. As has been di

Re: SiS video cards and GNOME 3

2010-10-18 Thread Calum Benson
On 16 Oct 2010, at 15:19, Jonh Wendell wrote: > So, I'm wondering if the Foundation could, somehow, help in this area. > Two ideas came up (not mutually exclusive): > > 1) Fund someone to writer a proper X org driver for SiS cards > 2) Talk to SiS to solve the problem 3) Build more elegant fall