Comment 6 for bug 574822

Le mardi 04 mai 2010 à 12:44 +0000, Cefn a écrit :
> The main features I'm using are the Scale feature, especially with
> window grouping by application (Expose-like behaviour).
>
> I quite like the visual effects but I could do without them from a
> productivity point of view. Scale I can't do without. It is critical to
> me managing large numbers of windows simultaneously (typical is 30 or
> more, 20 firefox + 4 File Manager + IM + IDE + etc. etc.).
>
> I found Gnome shell to be a bit clumsy but I'm optimistic for the
> future. It's a nice approach and cold map well to the way I work, but
> wasn't really stable or well-documented enough to use when I tried it a
> month or so ago. I'm already using Gnome-do at the heart of my system.
>
> If I drop Compiz is there a way to get Netbook and Gnome Shell to play
> ball and is there a stable version? Until then, Compiz compositing
> works, so why reinvent the wheel, especially if that wheel is
> incompatible with previous wheels?

The issue isn't in gnome-shell nor netbook-launcher TBH, it's more on
clutter side for using glx that isn't compatible (mutter wm is using a
clutter-based glx effect, so it's compatible).
This is more something to deal with upstream. But you got a bug, I'm
just giving you the cause :)