On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Gerry Reno greno@verizon.net wrote:
This isn't to say we shouldn't package Mate or Xfce or any additional desktops for CentOS - but it'd be good to make sure people are moving away from the defaults as an informed choice.
GNOME Classic is a set of extensions on top of GNOME 3. However, AIUI GNOME 3 doesn't require 3D hardware because there is an llvmpipe backend that will do software rendering on machines without capable hardware. Performance may be encumbered in that case with a slower CPU, but should still work.
And this llvmpipe implementation does not work properly.
Even on machines with good GPU's Gnome 3 refuses to use them and defaults many times to using llvmpipe which just totally kills performance.
Can someone report the issues that can be documented to Red Hat?