[release-notes/gnome-3-6] rewrite certain sections of the fallback mode page to be a bit clearer



commit 9eed9fc59775e360f74f42deffd4bbd42a286d70
Author: Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl>
Date:   Mon Sep 3 16:50:22 2012 +0200

    rewrite certain sections of the fallback mode page to be a bit clearer

 help/C/lookingforward-fallbackmode.page |   21 +++++++++++----------
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/help/C/lookingforward-fallbackmode.page b/help/C/lookingforward-fallbackmode.page
index 9771f2c..cead9c4 100644
--- a/help/C/lookingforward-fallbackmode.page
+++ b/help/C/lookingforward-fallbackmode.page
@@ -27,21 +27,22 @@
    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.
+   vendors did not provide good drivers. Another issue was with running GNOME in
+   a virtual machine, as most virtual machines software did not provide 
+   or emulate hardware acceleration.
   </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,
+    work like GNOME 3, while still allowing these components to mimic 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.
+    Some distributions labeled this mode as something other than fallback mode.
+    This caused some grievance as it gave an impression that it was intended to
+    provide a GNOME 2 experience.
   </p>
 
   <p>
@@ -71,10 +72,10 @@
   </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).
+    With <cmd>llvmpipe</cmd>, 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>



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