Classic mode questions [LWN.net]

Classic mode questions

Posted Jan 27, 2013 21:34 UTC (Sun) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)
In reply to: Classic mode questions by bojan
Parent article: Clasen: GNOME 3.7 at the halfway mark

Well it is going to use the CPU to emulate the effects versus the non-existant GPU so your CPU/memory usage will be much higher. I am not sure that the items Bastien was talking about are in F17, F18 or something being worked for F19.

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Classic mode questions

Posted Jan 27, 2013 22:33 UTC (Sun) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

> Well it is going to use the CPU to emulate the effects versus the non-existant GPU so your CPU/memory usage will be much higher.

Which brings us to the real point: what is the purpose of using 3D rendering here? Is it to display (more or less) useless animations and endless screen changes (i.e. overview) or is it so that _appropriate_ hardware does the job of rendering? With Gnome 3, it appears to be the former.