Initial thoughts about F14 / GNOME3

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 10:21 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> 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. [...]

Of course, the big one missing here is virt.