2009/1/4 Rajko M. <rmatov101@charter.net>:
On Saturday 03 January 2009 05:34:31 pm Eric Springer wrote:
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Rajko M. wrote:
For instance, OpenOffice is for me no-no in KDE4 desktop. Reason is nvidia driver for legacy chipsets (FX 5200). What happen is when OOo window has focus, and mouse pointer is anywhere on the desktop outside the OOo window, it will wreck havoc. When OOo window has no focus all comes back to normal.
If one would be very strict OOo will not go out until that is fixed. Many users have graphic that is based on legacy GPUs, so bug affects a lot of people. Nvidia interest is to fix first bugs in drivers for current hardware, so legacy is after that. You can't let all the people wait until bug that affects only KDE4 users with legacy Nvidia graphic, is solved.
Won't using the open source 2D 'nv' driver avoid that issue? Bugs with documented workrounds are less serious. Using a legacy Nvidia driver, means a tainted unsupported kernel, and no updates from Nvidia. If it works it's good fortune, if it doesn't you are left with the pieces; which is why we should support opensource friendly hardware companies. Why should OOo be delayed because of problems on unsupported configurations? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org