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First look at Ubuntu "Natty" and the state of UnityFirst look at Ubuntu "Natty" and the state of UnityPosted Feb 15, 2011 11:22 UTC (Tue) by ebassi (subscriber, #54855)In reply to: First look at Ubuntu "Natty" and the state of Unity by drag Parent article: First look at Ubuntu "Natty" and the state of Unity
The Gnome Shell graphical performance is a issue for me. I have 3360x1080 pixel desktop with Intel drivers and when I do 3D games or 1080i/1080p video playback I need all the muscle I can get. you need "muscle" and yet you used an intel GPU? :-) I have not tried Gnome-Shell in a few months, but it got to the point were using it was fairly painful because of the slowness. we fixed a lot of bugs in Clutter, and that resulted in a vastly improved experience in Mutter and GNOME Shell. Mutter with its default compositing plugin (essentially Metacity but with every window mapped to a ClutterActor and a few effects) performs as well in terms of FPS as Compiz on the same Intel hardware — though obviously FPS are a false indicator, given that everything should be synchronized to the vertical refresh rate of your screen to avoid consuming CPU/GPU resources and power. honestly, there is no reason why Mutter or GNOME Shell should be any less performant than Compiz.
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First look at Ubuntu "Natty" and the state of Unity Posted Feb 15, 2011 13:54 UTC (Tue) by Frej (subscriber, #4165) [Link]
When did you fix this?
It has been a while since i tried shell or unity for that matter. Thesis ;)
First look at Ubuntu "Natty" and the state of Unity Posted Feb 15, 2011 16:37 UTC (Tue) by ebassi (subscriber, #54855) [Link]
it's a continuous work in progress - remember: the GNOME 3.0 release is planned for April 2011.
generally, you want Clutter 1.6.4 (which is the latest stable release), as the fixes for performance issues regarding the scene and redraw almost always end up being bug fixes there. Mutter is pretty transparent, so you should only update it when GNOME Shell requires a new version because of changes in the internal API.
next week there should be the first, UI frozen beta release of GNOME 3.0; my suggestion is to try it then.
First look at Ubuntu "Natty" and the state of Unity Posted Feb 15, 2011 17:59 UTC (Tue) by Frej (subscriber, #4165) [Link]
Thank You :)
First look at Ubuntu "Natty" and the state of Unity Posted Feb 15, 2011 17:57 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
> you need "muscle" and yet you used an intel GPU? :-)
I don't have much of a choice right now until I build my new computer. It's a laptop right now and such is not upgradeable... but I should be fixing that in a couple weeks or three. :)
ATI hd5770 here I come...
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