It's not tied to drivers, it's tied to OpenGL 2.0 support. Seeing how the OpenGL 2.0 spec has been out for more than 7 years, that is a pretty modest requirement. it's just that apparently the GPU driver devs at AMD aren't capable of properly supporting it, though.
Also note that KWin is still usuable without OpenGL 2.0 support, you just won't be able to enable desktop effects then. IIRC it's possible to enable desktop effects when using LLVMPipe (a software rasterizer using Gallium3D), but the current mesa swrast just is too slow for running desktop effects without killing performance I guess.
You can still adjust the folder view to show the contents of the Desktop folder. If there's a.desktop file in there, clicking on that file will just behave as with other DEs.
I'm always using my real name when commiting any patches to the Wine project. Negative side is that I can be found quite quickly in Google, but maybe I'll get famous at some point:P
It's not about needing a 64-bit address space, it's more about 1) not needing to install a 32 bit Firefox PLUS the huge dependency list of it for 32 bit compatibility libs. Just takes away HDD space AND also much more RAM as the OS has to load each library twice (once the native 64 bit library and once the 32 bit compatibility lib) 2) not needing to install that ndispluginwrapper which is slow, unstable and actually not supported at all 3) not needing to use gnash or swfdec or something, they may work with most of the websites out there, but some just don't, now one finally gets/full/ Flash compatibility 4) eh... well, just about the same reason why I don't have any Windows applications running on Linux? Just seems senseless to run 32 bit apps in a 64 bit environment! 5) 64 Bit applications also run faster as they can depend on thinks like SSE to be implemented on ALL 64 bit processors.
I just tried it on my Fedora 9 64-bit installation and it works just fine. No crashes, no freezes, not like ATI drivers in XServer 1.5:P
Definitely a great move by Adobe, better release a working Flash plugin than a buggy and crashy one!
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It's not tied to drivers, it's tied to OpenGL 2.0 support. Seeing how the OpenGL 2.0 spec has been out for more than 7 years, that is a pretty modest requirement. it's just that apparently the GPU driver devs at AMD aren't capable of properly supporting it, though. Also note that KWin is still usuable without OpenGL 2.0 support, you just won't be able to enable desktop effects then. IIRC it's possible to enable desktop effects when using LLVMPipe (a software rasterizer using Gallium3D), but the current mesa swrast just is too slow for running desktop effects without killing performance I guess.
You can still adjust the folder view to show the contents of the Desktop folder. If there's a .desktop file in there, clicking on that file will just behave as with other DEs.
I'm always using my real name when commiting any patches to the Wine project. :P
Negative side is that I can be found quite quickly in Google, but maybe I'll get famous at some point
for faster execution speed and application performance in general?
It's not about needing a 64-bit address space, it's more about /full/ Flash compatibility
1) not needing to install a 32 bit Firefox PLUS the huge dependency list of it for 32 bit compatibility libs. Just takes away HDD space AND also much more RAM as the OS has to load each library twice (once the native 64 bit library and once the 32 bit compatibility lib)
2) not needing to install that ndispluginwrapper which is slow, unstable and actually not supported at all
3) not needing to use gnash or swfdec or something, they may work with most of the websites out there, but some just don't, now one finally gets
4) eh... well, just about the same reason why I don't have any Windows applications running on Linux? Just seems senseless to run 32 bit apps in a 64 bit environment!
5) 64 Bit applications also run faster as they can depend on thinks like SSE to be implemented on ALL 64 bit processors.
I just tried it on my Fedora 9 64-bit installation and it works just fine. No crashes, no freezes, not like ATI drivers in XServer 1.5 :P
Definitely a great move by Adobe, better release a working Flash plugin than a buggy and crashy one!