Re: Fallback / Classic Mode

["Jason D. Clinton" <me jasonclinton com>]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 13:16, Dave Neary <dneary gnome org> wrote:
> It appears you're happy telling people what to concentrate on, all I'm
> saying is that I'm not.

I would appreciate it if you would avoid ascribing me to certain
positions that I am not taking.


> But I bet that this will be an issue, and it's
> one we can handle easily with a tiny bit of foresight.

There is no issue because we planned for a Fallback Mode in 3.0 from
the beginning and it is implemented (modulo some bugs that need to be
squashed before release.)


>>> The whole "fall-back" messaging & in particular the absence of a short
>>> list of places where this is known not to be appropriate seems to me to
>>> be setting us up for an entirely avoidable post-release shit-storm...
>>> but like I said, it's not my call.
>>
>> What do you mean, "Not to be appropriate?"
>
> GNOME 3 is not appropriate, apparently, over VNC, and over thin clients
> (at least, this is what I've taken away from this thread). So we need to
> say "GNOME 3 won't work well in <these situations>, and since the GNOME
> 3 fall-back is not a full-featured GNOME desktop, you might want to
> stick with GNOME 2.32 if you're in this situation."

GNOME 3 is *not* GNOME Shell. I'm disheartened that you are this
misinformed as a regular reader of this mailing list and a blogger on
Planet GNOME. Frankly, I don't know what else we could have done to
better inform you but if you have a suggestion as to how it is that
you came to be so misguided and what we could have done to reach out
to you earlier, that would certainly help this marketing process.


>> Fallback will work
>> everywhere that GNOME 2.x has worked and any sysadmin crazy enough to
>> deploy an enterprise desktop roll-out of a non-Enterprise distribution
>> already has the tools they need to force Fallback Mode if they are so
>> inclined. I don't see why it's even remotely relevant to the release
>> of 3.0.
>
> Do you think no-one will bring this up?

Bring what up? Fallback Mode is part of GNOME 3.