From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:07:27 +0300 From: Michael Shigorin To: sisyphus@altlinux.ru Message-ID: <20050914160727.GY9602@osdn.org.ua> Mail-Followup-To: sisyphus@altlinux.ru Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: [sisyphus] Fwd: Re: Future Ubuntu hardware requirements X-BeenThere: sisyphus@altlinux.ru X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: shigorin@gmail.com, ALT Linux Sisyphus discussion list List-Id: ALT Linux Sisyphus discussion list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:07:29 -0000 Archived-At: List-Archive: повесить, что ли, [FR][4.1] на память... ----- Forwarded message from Paul Sladen ----- Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 12:33:17 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Sladen To: "sounder/lists.ubuntu.com" Subject: Re: Future Ubuntu hardware requirements On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Daniel Robitaille wrote: > On Sat, 2005-10-09 at 08:59 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > > Xgl, glitz... there's a lot of bling coming down the pipeline, > while bling is nice, bling doesn't run well on a lot of the hardware in > the world. And I would say most people don't need it to have it IIRC, the next version of Windows is going to change the amount of visual 'bling' displayed depending on the actual hardware configuration available. Having this sort of 'slider' is very common in games where you try and do absolutely anything to get the frame-rate (aka response time) as fast as possible. I think this is going to be fairly important for Ubuntu in the long-run; Some examples of things that could be set by the 'bling' slider in Ubuntu could be: Fast, new, bling++ /|\ | * Enable Compositing (eg. fading menus) * Enable Dragable filled windows * 24-bit software cursor vs. 2-bit hardware cursor * Selections made by faded rectangle vs. XOR'ed rectangle * Masked/curved windows corners (SHAPE extension) vs. square windows * Gecko vs. kHTML/WebCore (?) | * Anti-aliased vs. aliased fonts \|/ Slow, old, functionality++ The key would be setting the slider automatically---it shouldn't be too bad, because the user is free to move the slider if ''we got it wrong''. I'd probably peg the current user-experience at 1 Ghz machine / 256MB; turning features on above that and perhaps turning features off below that. At the moment Ubuntu makes the promise that ''Ubuntu will always fit on a single CD''; it would nice to be able to make the statement that ''Ubuntu will always work on your machine'' ...just that in the same way the contents of the CD is varied depending on what will fit; the contents of the of the GUI experience would be varied to make sure it is always makes the 100msec responsiveness target. (I think at the moment, the resident memory size of OOo is likely a limiting factor in how much RAM a computer needs to be "useful" to the user though!) -Paul -- The summer is familiar here. Nottingham, GB -- sounder mailing list sounder/lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/sounder ----- End forwarded message ----- -- ---- WBR, Michael Shigorin ------ Linux.Kiev http://www.linux.kiev.ua/ ---- visit our conference (Oct 1): -- http://conference.osdn.org.ua