From kde-core-devel  Wed Sep 23 18:49:50 2009
From: Chani <chanika () gmail ! com>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:49:50 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Turn Powerdevil suspend notification into a dialog
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On September 23, 2009 03:42:18 David Nolden wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 23 September 2009 11:56:23 schrieb Marco Martin:
> > usual thing: yes: there is broken hardware around, but we can't design
> > suboptimal softare just because it won't work with some crappy drivers.
> > in this case would be way better to disable suspension system-wide
> > altogether
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> I'm quite sure that 99.9% of all linux users have at least one device that
> doesn't work properly under linux. So if you only target users with fully
> working hardware, you target about 0.1%. That is unfortunate, but true, a=
nd
> that's why I you _have to_ consider broken hardware if you work on a
> mainstream desktop environment. For this case it's not really relevant, I=
'm
> just saying this because I'm hearing such statements again and again. You
> don't have to change your designs ground up, but you should at least
>  include it in your considerations.

I think we (KDE) are doing pretty well at including it in our consideration=
s,=20
actually.
if suspend doesn't work on your hardware, you can turn this feature off.
if compositing doesn't work, you still get a working desktop, it's just les=
s=20
pretty (and I only miss composite when I see other kde users who have it).

it's not like we do anything extreme like, say, requiring opengl ;)

we design systems that are optimized for working hardware, but degrade=20
gracefully.

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