[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 08/10] drirc: Don't expose 10 bpc visuals/configs to gnome-shell.

[Marek Olšák]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 4:44 AM, Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:
> On 09/09/17 07:07 PM, Mario Kleiner wrote:
>> On 09/08/2017 05:21 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>>> On 08/09/17 12:26 AM, Marek Olšák wrote:
>>>> [+ Dave]
>>>>
>>>> We can also ignore gnome-shell in Mesa for now and let the gnome-shell
>>>> maintainers fix the issue in gnome-shell.
>>>
>>> Indeed, that would be better.
>>
>> [+ Jonas Adahl] probably a good person to ping wrt. this?
>
> I think he is, though he's subscribed to the mesa-dev list anyway (and
> he has the "Avoid duplicate copies of messages?" option enabled in his
> mesa-dev mailing list membership configuration, so the list drops him
> from Cc in the posts it sends out to list subscribers).
>
>
>> You mean we shouldn't provide the driconf workaround for gnome-shell?
>>
>> That would make g-s wayland pretty much unusable in a very colorful way
>> until it's fixed. On X11 g-s works perfectly fine at Screen DefaultDepth
>> 24, but on wayland we'd probably get lots bug reports by users which try
>> out the latest Mesa from some repo, e.g., Ubuntu's padoka ppa's.
>
> That might provide some incentive for the gnome-shell developers to fix
> the issues. :)
>
> If they're still not fixed when we cut the Mesa 17.3 / 18.0 release, we
> can consider putting in the workaround then.

I don't think a workaround is necessary even in that case. Both
projects are open source - we don't have to add workarounds for other
open source projects.

Marek