Re: Re: gnome-panel & gnome-applets?

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 09:43 +0100, Carlos Garcia Campos wrote:

> > it is, in fact, an exact assessment of what anyone who wishes to keep
> > the old user experience should do: there's no need to ever upgrade if
> > the 2.x UX is doing the job.
> 
> My only concern is people who *can't* use gnome-shell because of
> hardware requirements, and it isn't a matter of buying a new computer,
> my previous laptop was a modern one, but the nvidia card made imposssible
> to use gnome-shell for more than 5 minutes.

that is a driver bug; let's not conflate bugs with design choices.

bugs gets fixed, eventually; in this case you're blocked by the fact
that the driver in question is closed source, and the open source
replacement for it is not yet mature enough. it is still, though, a
driver bug.

nvidia also used to have problem with xrender, making cairo (and gtk)
slower - and yet nobody asked for a fallback drawing code path for gtk
at the time.

>  So, my point is, if we
> want to provide a fallback for those people and we are going to use
> gnome-panel and metacity because they are already there, why not keeping
> the applets too for the same reason?

because resources are limited, and we cannot spread them evenly to all
efforts otherwise GNOME 3.0 would never be released.

if you are volunteering for porting gnome-panel and the applets to gtk3
and to the GNOME 3.x platform, then feel free to start filing patches;
I'm pretty patches to port won't be rejected. gtk3 is entering its
API/feature freeze phase, so it should be easier.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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