Re: UI/String freeze break request for gnome-boxes

[Piotr Drąg <piotrdrag gmail com>]

pt., 15 mar 2019 o 15:47 Felipe Borges <felipeborges gnome org> napisał(a):
> Hi,
>
> Since the release of GNOME Boxes 3.32.0 this week, we started to get
> reports from users having problems with our recent "auto enable 3D
> acceleration" feature. For this small set of users (dual-GPU or
> unconventional graphics drivers), Boxes has become unusable.
>
> That's why I have proposed the following merge request
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-boxes/merge_requests/133
>
> These changes introduce a pop-up notification that shows up only at
> the first time a user starts a machine that supports 3D acceleration.
> The notification offers an user action to Disable 3D acceleration.
> Other than UI, it introduces two new strings:
> "Experiencing graphics problems?" and "Disable 3d acceleration".
>
> Screenshot -> https://i.imgur.com/EYC5IDa.jpg
> (by the way, those glitches you see in the screenshot are the ones
> worked-around by this).
>
> I have discussed the approach with both Jakub Steiner and Allan Day,
> and their are onboard with the change.
>
> Thanks, and sorry for the inconvenience of making this request this
> late in the release cycle.

Dear Felipe,

You can’t add new strings and then immediately make a release. This is
not how it’s supposed to work.

Best regards,

-- 
Piotr Drąg
https://piotrdrag.fedorapeople.org