wine users - Nov 2010 - AppdB and Bugzilla suggestion

Video acceleration is an essential aspect of personal computers now, and
it's becoming more important every day. Not only for games, but also for
most modern OS interfaces, video decoding and all kinds of applications are
depending on it now.

So, I think both AppDB and Bugzilla should have 2 aditional dropboxes when
reporting test data and bugs : one for the video card manufacturer (Nividia,
AMD/ATI, Intel, VIA, other) and other for the video drivers in use (Nvidia
proprietary drivers / AMD Catalyst  / Mesa / Gallium3d / Noveau / other /
don't know / etc).

Knowing how an application will behave on Wine with given video card and drivers
is an essential information for Wine users now.

landeel <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>
>Video acceleration is an essential aspect of personal computers now, and
it's becoming more important every day. Not only
>for games, but also for most modern OS interfaces, video decoding and all
kinds of applications are depending on it now.
>
>So, I think both AppDB and Bugzilla should have 2 aditional dropboxes when
reporting test data and bugs : one for the
>video card manufacturer (Nividia, AMD/ATI, Intel, VIA, other) and other for
the video drivers in use (Nvidia proprietary
>drivers / AMD Catalyst  / Mesa / Gallium3d / Noveau / other / don't know
/ etc).
Don't like this because some problems (actually most of them) do not affect
a specific video card/driver combination.  Most problems are platform agnostic.
>
>Knowing how an application will behave on Wine with given video card and
drivers is an essential information for Wine
>users now.
In the Applications Database, this would be good to have for test results.  Not
so much for Bugzilla as we should not be filing bug reports against video
drivers and video cards.

James McKenzie

> In the Applications Database, this would be good to have for test results. 
Not so much for Bugzilla as we should not be filing bug reports against video
drivers and video cards.

Have to agree. On the AppDB it'd be a good thing to have, but on Bugzilla,
what we could do is just have "nvidia-gfx", "amd-gfx" and
"intel-gfx" keywords.