Growing frustration with Gnome Shell

[Ian Malone]

On 11 August 2011 20:08, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> are borked with a standard-desktop because some developers
>> are thinking it is cool rely on 3D-crap
>
> The sad thing is almost none of the 3D dependancies are remotely
> necessary as far as I can see - just about every 'clever' effect it has
> Enlightenments Evas seems to do faster while abstracting the canvas
> underneath to work with just about everything from a dumb frame buffer to
> a fairly full OpenGL.
>
> What does it actually use of the 3D/render from a user point of view ?
>
> - It composites (alpha blends stuff) , whoopee can be done easily in
>  software on a dumb device. Xfce with compositing is fast on a low end
>  Atom with no video acceleration.
>

And the best use I ever found desktop alpha blending (transparent
terminal windows) is broken anyway because they've dropped a big black
box behind all the windows.

-- 
imalone