Re: Dropping fallback mode in 3.8

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 21:50:37 +0100
Raphaël Jacquot <sxpert sxpert org> wrote:

> 
> On 21 nov. 2012, at 21:31, Alberto Ruiz <aruiz gnome org> wrote:
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> > A "classic mode" for GNOME Shell could make use of less expensive effects that could relieve the software rendenrer making the experience a lot nicer on machines with driver problems (or other cases where native GL could not be provided).
> 
> sounds like a rather good option, how about asking on firstboot, when detecting hardware that could be rather slow, an option to cut all the nice bling, so as to save cpu/gpu cycles...

That ought to be happening automatically based upon timing the effects
and also on things like battery life. 3D compositing is a video memory
hog and that has material power impact.

Alan