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List:       kwin
Subject:    Re: User interaction problems
From:       Martin =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gr=E4=DFlin?= <mgraesslin () kde ! org>
Date:       2011-04-30 10:23:16
Message-ID: 3305973.KeqijGS2jP () martin-apple
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On Saturday 30 April 2011 22:04:12 Ben Cooksley wrote:
> OpenSUSE 11.3 (which KWin claims is insufficient
> in terms of it's Mesa version) isn't even 9 months old.
> 
> Please take steps to improve the user experience.
And here we have a conflict of possibilities. Mesa developers want us to drop 
support for older drivers so that we can have a more secure way of checking 
the capabilities without getting broken by the drivers if they do changes. Now 
you ask us to improve the user experience by again relying on possibly broken 
checks. We cannot support old and modern drivers at the same time - at least 
it looks like that.

No current distribution is shipping less than Mesa 7.10 and the change is for 
KWin 4.7 which will be only used by either current distributions or the next 
distribution releases, e.g. OpenSUSE 12.0.

I am sorry to say that we are not able to fullfill your wish. It is unlikely 
that a "user" will face such an issue. We will clearly communicate in our 
release notes that KWin 4.7 will require Mesa 7.10. A developer has no problem 
with lack of notification as we print out a debug statement.

Cheers
Martin
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