Hardware for Gnome3

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Sat Feb 5 08:03:41 UTC 2011


On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 3:13 AM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 7:05 PM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Now downloading the live image linked from the test day page and will
> > use that as soon as I get a block of time to test.
>
> I did take an hour this evening to run a test on a laptop which has
> nVidia Corporation G86M [Quadro FX 360M] graphics and almost all the
> tests passed so I was quite impressed at this stage of the game! (Yes
> I have added a line to the test matrix)
>
> There are some things that are no longer there that I am not enamoured
> with though, and one is that I have relied on for quite some time is
> gnome-applet-netspeed to give me an instantaneous indication of
> download speed when I am pulling files - since gnome applets will not
> be supported in gnome 3 there appears no way, that I am aware of, to
> get the same functionality in gnome 3 - unless someone can tell me
> what I have missed?
>

I don't expect GNOME 3.0 to be functionally equivalent to GNOME  2.x.
GNOME Shell does support extensions and I hope some of them cover the common
use cases over time.  Netspeed is something I depend on as well

Rahul
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