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Posted Jun 18, 2010 17:02 UTC (Fri) by drago01 (subscriber, #50715)
In reply to: 3D by dlang
Parent article: A quick grumpy review of Shotwell

I wasn't being specific to the app itself but there is no reason why apps should pretend that opengl is an optional feature that is "rare".

If opengl does not work that something at the system level is _broken_ not the app that tries to use it.

In fact I consider not using opengl where it makes sense a bug; GPUs aren't just providing a framebuffer where you can directly draw to, they can actually do the rendering, so it is valid to use them for their intended task.


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