On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 22:05, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > Can Fedora pull out it's screensavers that need/want 3D hardware > > acceleration, and bundle them into a separate 3d-screensavers rpm? > > No, for various reasons, including: > > - there's no good way to key packages as 'install this if you > have hardware 3d support' During the installation, kudzu detects what sort of video card a PC has. Wouldn't this be enough to see if you have hardware 3d support? Otherwise, just default to installing 2d screensavers, and make the 3d an option. > - the 2d screensavers can (and do) chew just as much CPU as the 3d > ones Yes, but the 3d one's look *very* ugly on a 2d video card. Having a laptop sitting around and displaying some random 3d screensaver and not having it support it, makes it horrible. I can attest to this... > Patches that allow switching automatically to the blank screensaver > in the case of running on battery, etc. would certainly be considered; > you'd probably want to hook into the dbus event framework for getting > power events from the kernel in the future. Good idea. -- Colin Charles, byte@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bytebot.net/
