3D screensavers - separate package

[Garrett LeSage]

Colin Charles wrote:

>On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 22:05, Bill Nottingham wrote:
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>>>Can Fedora pull out it's screensavers that need/want 3D hardware 
>>>acceleration, and bundle them into a separate 3d-screensavers rpm?
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>>No, for various reasons, including:
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>>- there's no good way to key packages as 'install this if you
>>  have hardware 3d support'
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>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?
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>Otherwise, just default to installing 2d screensavers, and make the 3d
>an option.
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A much simpler and more elegant solution is to ship good screensavers 
(whether 3d or not) and have the OpenGL-based screensavers categorized 
as such.  In terms of hardware support, set the default to a non-3d one 
(ideally a simple "Fedora" themed screensaver).

No hardware detection needed.  3d screensavers are still shipped, and a 
few would be included by default.  No OpenGL screensaver crashes as a 
result, too...

The GNOME screensaver suggestion may help us out in this area 
(eventually), if it gets implemented:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-November/msg00407.html

Either way, a more sane default is a good thing.  (:

Garrett