[release-notes/gnome-3-6] explain fallback mode history

[Olav Vitters <ovitters src gnome org>]

commit 709d522be3d84edbe6d5d8784e924a9030b08346
Author: Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl>
Date:   Mon Sep 3 10:45:07 2012 +0200

    explain fallback mode history

 help/C/lookingforward-fallbackmode.page |   36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 help/Makefile.am                        |    3 +-
 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/help/C/lookingforward-fallbackmode.page b/help/C/lookingforward-fallbackmode.page
index b3e0ffa..eb7b42b 100644
--- a/help/C/lookingforward-fallbackmode.page
+++ b/help/C/lookingforward-fallbackmode.page
@@ -22,9 +22,31 @@
   </comment>
 
   <p>
+   With the release of GNOME 3.0, GNOME required some very basic hardware
+   rendering support. Though almost all hardware at that time did not have any
+   concept of '2D', in practice there were various issues. Some hardware
+   vendors did not provide any good drivers. Another issue was with virtual
+   machines as in general no hardware accelleration was provided.
+  </p>
+
+  <p>
+    To allow GNOME 3 to be used, a fallback mode was implemented. This was done
+    by changing the <cmd>metacity</cmd> and <cmd>gnome-panel</cmd> components to
+    work like GNOME 3, while still allowing these components to mimick GNOME 2,
+    though that required some work.
+  </p>
+
+  <p>
+    Some distributions labeled this mode as something other than fallback mode,
+    which caused some grievance as this gave the impression that this still
+    provided a GNOME 2 experience.
+  </p>
+
+  <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. 
+    with recent releases: it's working (mostly), but as GNOME 3 moves on,
+    fallback mode mostly stays the same and the difference between GNOME 3 and
+    fallback mode increases with each GNOME release.
   </p>
 
   <p>
@@ -43,7 +65,7 @@
     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.
+    fallback mode is to provide the GNOME 3 way.
   </p>
 
   <p>
@@ -54,10 +76,10 @@
   </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. 
+    For 3.8, what we will do has not yet been decided. What is clear is that the
+    current status of fallback mode does not provide an acceptable experience.
+    Not for people expecting a 'GNOME 2' experience, not for people who cannot
+    make use of 'GNOME 3'.
   </p>
 
 </page>
diff --git a/help/Makefile.am b/help/Makefile.am
index ffe903c..3648218 100644
--- a/help/Makefile.am
+++ b/help/Makefile.am
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ HELP_FILES = \
  installation-sources.page \
  users-baobab.page \
  users-boxes.page \
- users-disks.page
+ users-disks.page \
+ lookingforward-fallbackmode.page
 
 HELP_MEDIA = \
  $(NULL)