Re: Debian desktop news
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 23:58:54 -0400
> Stephen Allen <marathon.durandal@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 09:55:13AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
>>>
>>> GNOME 3 is quite different from the GNOME 2 series, and has made
>>> some people correspondingly upset. XFCE is fairly similar to
>>> GNOME 2, and may suit those people better. In particular, GNOME
>>> 3 really wants 3D accelerated video. XFCE doesn't care much
>>> about that.
>>
>> I've heard this said by other prior too.
>
> It doesn't 'really want' hardware acceleration, it *requires* it. I said
> it because that's what the error message, as explained by the Gnome
> website, said. The Gnome developers said they no longer felt the need to
> support 'legacy' hardware, which is of course their absolute right.
Fedora 17's GNOME Shell doesn't "require," "really want," or even want
hardware acceleration. This [1] was the initial announcement. I have
no idea though whether Wheezy's got this or not.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-November/158976.html
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