Re: Dropping fallback mode in 3.8

[Raphaël Jacquot <sxpert sxpert org>]

On 21 nov. 2012, at 21:31, Alberto Ruiz <aruiz gnome org> wrote:

> A "classic mode" for GNOME Shell could make use of less expensive effects that could relieve the software rendenrer making the experience a lot nicer on machines with driver problems (or other cases where native GL could not be provided).

sounds like a rather good option, how about asking on firstboot, when detecting hardware that could be rather slow, an option to cut all the nice bling, so as to save cpu/gpu cycles...