Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 17:12 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
I was looking at gnome3.org today, and their FAQ says that "The traditional GNOME 2 desktop will not disappear overnight, however: releases of GNOME 2 will continue to be supported by distributions for years to come." so clearly they don't imagine everyone will drop all their software and retrain all their users overnight.
Ubuntu doesn't see to have that thought, either.
I was looking for a way to run fc15 in a VM, which worked in the alpha and hasn't (for me) since. The FAQ says that's the case, no VM has a powerful enough video emulation to handle the worthless eye candy. The Virtualbox people say much the same, but their spin is that the video could do the job but GNOME insisted on using some direct to hardware stuff they don't off. I freely admit I didn't spend a lot of time deciding anything other than both of them imply the fault is with the other.
I have F15 running in a VirtualBox VM under MacOS on my company laptop. Gnome seems to be in "fall-back" mode as far as I can tell. I'm more of a KDE user so I don't really know, but it is at least usable.
Actually that's neither gnome-shell or GNOME2, but yet another user interface. If it has a name other than fallback mode, I don't know it, and it's poorly documented, as is appropriate for something which doesn't seem to be intended for actual daily use.