Initial thoughts about F14 / GNOME3

[Adam Jackson]

On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 08:55 +0100, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 19:51 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > 3) gnome-shell will be the designated user experience. 
> ...
> > It would also be good to start a discussion on the if/when/how of
> > switching to the shell as the default user experience (on supported
> > hardware).
> 
> Are these the drivers we currently have that we expect should be able to
> run gnome-shell reasonably ?
> 
> xorg-x11-drv-ati
> xorg-x11-drv-intel
> xorg-x11-drv-nouveau

It's a little more fine-grained than that, but broadly yes.  nouveau is
probably lagging the most at the moment, but I expect gnome-shell
support to be a primary feature-completeness target for 3D drivers from
this point out.  Sort of the way quake3 was in 1999.

There does exist other hardware where we could have a better 3D story
and nobody's put in the legwork yet.  Newer VIA kit is probably the most
obvious example.  If there's interest I can try to put together a list
of desiderata for what a driver needs to support to be considered
shell-worthy.

- ajax
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