gnome-desktop comps group

[pbrobinson at gmail.com]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Martin Sourada
<martin.sourada at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 20:47 +0100, pbrobinson at gmail.com wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 19:41 +0100, pbrobinson at gmail.com wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> So the comps group will be split as well? I think this should remain
>> >> split even in F-15 as there's a lot of scenarios where you might want
>> >> one or the other.
>> >
>> > I don't think we want to have gnome2 and gnome3 as separate comps
>> > groups, going forward. For F14, I am going to drop the gnome3 additions
>> > from comps, as far as possible. For F15, we will have a better gnome3
>> > story, hopefully.
>>
>> So how will that work for non intel/nvidia/ati GPUs as well as
>> VMs/VDI/dumb terminals/vnc and other associated technologies? Hell
>> even my relatively decent Dell laptop with a nvidia card doesn't run
>> gnome shell with any reasonable speed (if you count clicking on
>> something and it responding 17 seconds (yes I timed it) later
>> workable).
>>
> AFAIK, you can use "old school gnome" with gnome 3 as well. The
> gnome-panel, metacity etc. are not going to be obsoleted...

That's what I meant by "gnome-2" and I realise that.

Peter