User interaction problems

[Kevin Kofler]

Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>  This is now a little bit surprising for me as it was a Fedora developer
>  who urged me into raising the requirements. In fact I was even asked to
>  raise it for the next minor release as a bugfix.

Uh, I never asked you to up the Mesa requirement to 7.10. The minimal change 
to check for "Intel" instead of "GEM" in kwinglcheck (which is the patch I 
applied in the Fedora 15 kdebase-workspace package) only raises the 
requirement to something much lower. I don't know the exact version (we'd have 
to check the history), but the Intel driver has been DRI2 for years! And Adam 
Jackson (also a Fedora developer) suggested cleaner ways to check whether 
direct rendering will work, which (as far as I know) will also work fine on 7.9 
and probably several older releases. There's a middle ground between 
supporting everything ancient and requiring the very latest.

And by the way, your new check (which assumes that Mesa == DRI2) is also 
incorrect for Mesa 7.10 because DRI1 drivers still exist (e.g. i810/i830 
legacy). E.g. Fedora 15 still ships them (and it has a Mesa 7.11 snapshot), 
only Fedora 16 will drop them. Some distros might keep them for even longer.

That said, we will probably not upgrade Fedora 14 to 4.7 anyway. We have been 
doing only one KDE SC upgrade per Fedora release (i.e. offering the latest KDE 
SC only on the latest Fedora) since Fedora 12. We may (or may not) be doing 
unofficial packages though, and we may end up having to patch your OpenGL 
checking code to make them work. :-(

        Kevin Kofler