Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hans de Goede wrote:
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hans de Goede wrote:
Not in this case, thje idea is that the (error) dialog gets shown
when the user tries to launch a 3d game from the menu.
The idea is to create a generic wrapper script and then modify all
opengl games to use this (atleast all in the kickstart file)
I think this would way too annoying. I just want to provide a gentle
nag. Not to frustrate users every time they try to launch 3D games
which I suspect will happen if we modify all the related menu entries
to launch a dialog box.
Note that the dialog will _only_ be shown when dri (direct rendering)
is not available, so if we wouldn't show the dialog (and not start the
game) the user would get a slide show (software rendering) and
navigating a menu with the mouse when you get 3 frames per second can
be quite annoying.
Here is a alternative solution:
Login time, check whether DRI is enabled and popup a message "Your
system does not have open accelerated 3D drivers available or installed
on your system. This means that you will not able to play 3D games
efficiently. Click here for more information" and point them to a wiki
link in Fedora with more information.
Have a check box below saying "Don't remind me, next time" or just bring
this dialog box up only on first login for a new user.
The user then still won't know which games use opengl and which games he/she
thus shouldn't try to start. Starting one of them will result in a slide show
with very poor response to mouse keyboard events making it hard to quit the
game again. This is IMHO not user friendly, so I believe its better to check
for dri when a game is launched and refuse to launch, with a message dialog
explaining why.
Regards,
Hans
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