Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Not in this case, thje idea is that the
(error) dialog gets shown
>>>> when the user tries to launch a 3d game
from the menu.
>>>>
>>>> The idea is to create a generic wrapper
script and then modify all
>>>> opengl games to use this (atleast all in
the kickstart file)
>>>
>>> I think this would way too annoying. I just
want to provide a gentle
>>> nag. Not to frustrate users every time they try
to launch 3D games
>>> which I suspect will happen if we modify all
the related menu entries
>>> to launch a dialog box.
>>>
>>
>> Note that the dialog will _only_ be shown when dri
(direct rendering)
>> is not available, so if we wouldn't show the dialog
(and not start the
>> game) the user would get a slide show (software
rendering) and
>> navigating a menu with the mouse when you get 3
frames per second can
>> be quite annoying.
>
> Here is a alternative solution:
>
> Login time, check whether DRI is enabled and popup a
message "Your
> system does not have open accelerated 3D drivers
available or installed
> on your system. This means that you will not able to
play 3D games
> efficiently. Click here for more information" and
point them to a wiki
> link in Fedora with more information.
>
> Have a check box below saying "Don't remind me,
next time" or just bring
> this dialog box up only on first login for a new user.
>
The user then still won't know which games use opengl and
which games he/she
thus shouldn't try to start. Starting one of them will
result in a slide show
with very poor response to mouse keyboard events making it
hard to quit the
game again. This is IMHO not user friendly, so I believe its
better to check
for dri when a game is launched and refuse to launch, with a
message dialog
explaining why.
Regards,
Hans
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