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. Newer VIA kit is probably the most
obvious example. If there's interest I can try to put together a list
of desiderata for what a driver needs to support to be considered
shell-worthy.
- ajax