On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:58 AM, Georg Zotti <georg.zo...@univie.ac.at> wrote: > On Mo, 20.02.2012, 23:51, Fabien Chéreau wrote: >> [snip] >> The OpenGL state is not so much a mess as you seem to think, but it is a > bit complicated for 2 reasons: >> - we still support old graphic cards which don't support shaders, and >> using the fixed pipeline is quite different than using the shaders baed > one, so maintaining both is by nature no so simple. > > There are lots of Intel GMA notebooks with only support OpenGL1.4, > practically every "office notebook" before Core-i3 or so. I always was > happy my cheap Atom netbook can run Stellarium, maybe this (OpenGL1.4) is > the currently weakest platform worth considerng. The scenery3D plugin > requires shaders for advanced effects, but still has basic functionality > for 1.4. Requiring OpenGL2.0 (shaders) may be a hard decision for many > users of older PCs.
+1. A lot of people are using Stellarium on laptops/notebooks/netbooks that don't support OpenGL 2.0, because they need something that they can easily carry "in the field", especially for telescope control. My main computer at the moment (and probably for the next two years) is also a netbook that doesn't support OpenGL 2. So, dropping the support for less-able graphics hardware will prevent me from contributing to Stellarium. :) Regards, Bogdan Marinov ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Stellarium-pubdevel mailing list Stellarium-pubdevel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stellarium-pubdevel
