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McCann: Cross Cut [the future of Nautilus]McCann: Cross Cut [the future of Nautilus]Posted Aug 3, 2012 0:51 UTC (Fri) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)In reply to: McCann: Cross Cut [the future of Nautilus] by smoogen Parent article: McCann: Cross Cut [the future of Nautilus]
That's already the case, actually. You don't need to have 3D hardware acceleration any more to run Gnome Shell:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-Novem...
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McCann: Cross Cut [the future of Nautilus] Posted Aug 4, 2012 2:43 UTC (Sat) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950) [Link]
There are still cases where it breaks down. Some hardware might be good enough for the basic check, but it fails later on. Also some hardware might be missing just one function, resulting in slow software rendering while it could be much faster.
Currently the software rendering would render everything using software. Ideally that would only use software for the stuff that is not supported. Apparently that is quite difficult.
The software rendering also doesn't work under some architectures (arm + s390 IIRC). Furthermore, OpenBSD mentioned they need some work as well to support software rendering (should be ready around GNOME 3.6.0 release).
McCann: Cross Cut [the future of Nautilus] Posted Aug 4, 2012 15:30 UTC (Sat) by clump (subscriber, #27801) [Link]
I think software rendering is closer to the definition of fallback mode. The current "fallback mode" represents an experience closer to GNOME 2. So to me, there are three versions of GNOME 3:
- Hardware rendered
McCann: Cross Cut [the future of Nautilus] Posted Aug 5, 2012 2:15 UTC (Sun) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]
> There are still cases where it breaks down.
True. In fact, my xrdp sessions cannot run Gnome Shell at all (runs Xvnc in the back, really).
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