On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 11:14:40 +1300 Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> > Now, (I hope I'm not wrong on this.) It seems that the default GNOME > installation required a graphics card with hardware acceleration. How > stupid is that? It goes against the whole concept of a sensible > default. It isn't a default, the Gnome3 GUI will not work without hardware acceleration. In the beginning, after an upgrade, there was a fallback to a sort of Gnome2 display, but minus all the panels, icons etc. that had been there before the upgrade. The long-term fallback is Xfce and other lightweights. > > BTW, along the same lines, I'd expect the default *not* to suspend on > lid-close simply because some models have "quirks" when coming out of > suspend. It should be configurable by the admin whether he¹ wants it > that way. Suspending or shutting down should never be a default. What if the new program's default was to suspend or shut down after a couple of hours without keyboard or mouse movement? Certainly a sensible enough default for a desktop, but hardly optimal for a server. If a new program isn't going to honour previous configurations, it *must* fail safe. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141125230802.22f73...@jresid.jretrading.com
