[release-notes/gnome-3-6] add fallback mode section

[Olav Vitters <ovitters src gnome org>]

commit fc391d4a7c49fdb01085eb9a602c2ffb2c103695
Author: Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl>
Date:   Mon Sep 3 10:02:47 2012 +0200

    add fallback mode section

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+<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/";
+      xmlns:e="http://projectmallard.org/experimental/";
+      type="topic"
+      id="lookingforward-fallbackmode">
+
+  <info>
+    <link type="guide" xref="index#lookingforward"/>
+    <desc>Drop or Fix Fallback Mode.</desc>
+    <credit type="author">
+      <name>Olav Vitters</name>
+      <email>olav vitters nl</email>
+    </credit>
+    <license>
+      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
+    </license>
+  </info>
+
+  <title>Fallback mode</title>
+
+  <comment>
+    Copy/paste from https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointSeven/Features/DropOrFixFallbackMode
+  </comment>
+
+  <p>
+    The fallback mode has become less and less useful as a pure fallback mode
+    with recent releases: it's working (mostly), but it doesn't offer the high
+    quality people are expecting from us. This was discussed in June. 
+  </p>
+
+  <p>
+    There are currently several issues with fallback mode:
+  </p>
+
+  <list>
+    <item><p>Almost nobody actively tests fallback mode</p></item>
+    <item><p>It is in maintenance mode (no new features for the core, but bug fixes go in), with no active development since nobody is stepping up (and some required parts, like polkit-gnome, are not maintained at all)</p></item>
+    <item><p>Several apps now require <cmd>clutter</cmd> and will not work in fallback mode (totem, audio/video UI in empathy, cheese, etc.) </p></item>
+    <item><p>some changes in our architecture require additional work to keep things somewhat working in fallback, even though they won't offer the full experience (for example the keyboard configuration)</p></item>
+  </list>
+
+  <p>
+    In addition to these issues, some people would like to improve components
+    of the fallback mode to work differently -- but in a way that would make
+    the fallback mode work more like GNOME 2, and diverge from the GNOME 3
+    vision. Those contributions are usually blocked because the goal of the
+    fallback mode is to work the GNOME 3 way.
+  </p>
+
+  <p>
+    With llvmpipe, the need for the fallback mode is becoming less important.
+    However llvmpipe doesn't work on some architectures (ppc, s390, arm?) and
+    might not work in some non-Linux-based OS (OpenBSD support is not there,
+    for instance).
+  </p>
+
+  <p>
+    If we are serious about offering the fallback mode, we should invest more
+    efforts into it. If we can't invest more efforts, it might be better to
+    simply say we don't support the fallback mode anymore and keep focusing on
+    making our core UX rock. 
+  </p>
+
+</page>