Why do I sometimes get a gdm similar to gnome 2's?

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, 2013-03-08 at 12:33 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-03-08 at 11:56 -0500, Ray Strode wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > > The "older" UI is shown when detection that your graphics card has
> > > > the
> > > > necessary OpenGL support fails.
> > > 
> > > Can it not, please?  Seriously, what a terrible idea.
> > 
> > Colin dropped support for the older UI upstream yesterday:
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695414
> > 
> > And I moved the acceleration check outside of the timeout
> > code a few days before that:
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672943
> 
> I still don't understand why that timeout is there at all.  What is it
> meant to fix?

Hanging for 10 seconds waiting to see if your GPU supports enough GL to
run the shell before falling back to the classic one.  All that wait
time delays showing the GDM greeter, so faster bootup pretty much
requires a bound of some sort on this operation.

Dan