Why no icons? Was, Re: How to switch back to metacity

[Alan Cox]

> being done by Adam Jackson from Red Hat to include support for software
> rendering of GNOME Shell or more accurately,  Clutter, the toolkit used
> by GNOME Shell.  This is not done yet and it is not clear how efficient
> it would be

Is this pure software or using 2D acceleration where possible. For a lot
of "using GL for windowing" cases the surfaces, textured or otherwise are
generally flat on and usually 1:1 scaled which are 2D fast paths on a lot
of older non 3D (or non good 3D) cards ?

Alan