Re: Fallback / Classic Mode

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> Then again, I think we should keep the fallback mode as close to the
> 2.x look as possible tbh to avoid confusion.

The confusion lies in the fact that the fallback mode is clearly made
from GNOME 2 components. It would have been clearer if it were more
divorced from the previous desktop. That said, fallback isn't *exactly*
the same as GNOME 2.x. The message, as Olav has already pointed out, is
that it is 'fallback', not 'classic' GNOME. It's what you get if you are
unlucky enough not to be able to run the full GNOME 3 desktop. It isn't
intended as something that users choose to use.

(There is a switch in the control center that lets you force the
fallback mode, however.)

> Maybe showing a startup
> splash explaining it the first time it falls back.

There is one. It has a pretty picture of a sad computer, yearning for
more GNOME 3 goodness.

I don't particularly want to be talking about fallback in our marketing
except for pointing out that it exists and is fine... thoughts?

Do we need a warning somewhere about using VMs? Maybe on the try it page
[1]?

Allan

[1] http://www.gnome3.org/tryit.html
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