Re: Fallback / Classic Mode

[Alberto Ruiz <aruiz gnome org>]

Hey John,

This is a sore point indeed, GNOME Shell won't run on VirtualBox (the
only cross-platform/user-friendly/ opensource desktop virtualization
app), same for KVM (I don't know what's the state for VMWare though).

This really troubles me, a lot of people these days (certainly a lot
of Mac guys) run Linux on a VM, at the same time, the Unity guys have
managed to get their stuff running on top of the VirtualBox 3D driver.

I do not know what is going on at the technical side (probably clutter
requiring OpenGL extensions VirtualBox doesn't implement), but
certainly something worth investigating with the clutter guys.

Then again, I think we should keep the fallback mode as close to the
2.x look as possible tbh to avoid confusion. Maybe showing a startup
splash explaining it the first time it falls back.

My 2cents

2011/3/16 John Stowers <john stowers lists gmail com>:
> Hi All,
>
> This morning I saw this -
> http://www.webupd8.org/2011/03/classic-gnome-3-beta-2-video-no-shell.html
>
> From the comments I conclude that people have no idea what the
> classic/fallback desktop is and how it relates to G3.
>
> Another conclusion could be; that humanity is doomed.
>
> Perhaps the marketing team could address the first point.
>
> John
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Un saludo,
Alberto Ruiz