[Shotwell] Improve Shotwell Slideshow - Weekly Report #4

[Andreas Brauchli]

hey alex

> I had some issues with the open source driver for my Radeon (Unity can't
> login more then half the time) and switched to the proprietary driver, but
> then I got even worse results with the slideshow. A lot of the textures
> don't load correctly and after a while I was getting a blank window as the
> Clutter stage. So I need to investigate this and check if it's anything I
> can improve in the code.

i've had multiple issues with clutter and my intel card (open drivers)
when writing the libchamplain widget integration which also uses clutter
(see http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2875 ) What helped in my case was
setting the env. var. CLUTTER_VBLANK=none
maybe this also helps with the radeon.

if unity bugs too much, try gnome 3 ;)

cheerios