Can someone please give this ticket some attention?

[Nathaniel McCallum]

On 01/14/2011 03:42 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 14:08 -0500, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625187
>>
>> This bug basically makes Fedora completely unusable in rawhide for
>> NVA{3,5,8} users.  At this point I think it should be made a blocker.
>> Multiple people have volunteered help to resolve it, but there has been
>> no movement for months, no link to an upstream bug and no advice on how
>> to move the ticket forward.  Please advise.
> 
> It already has attention. Ben's perfectly aware of it, as is the rest of
> the nouveau team. It's not trivial to fix. As I said in the report, the
> problem with Rawhide is not actually an issue in the driver.

I'm happy now, not that the problem is resolved (it isn't) but that
there is now a reference to the upstream bug which contains far more
details.  It is this context that the ticket was missing and left people
wondering why something that was so trivial was not getting fixed
(because, if one looks at the upstream bug it is definitely non-trivial).

I still think migrating to GNOME shell by default was a mistake if the
proper fallbacks were not in place.  If the developers knew the
fallbacks were not implemented (this seems to be the case), why was it
ever enabled by default?  I have no problem with rawhide breakage from
time to time, but intentional breakage, and indeed intentional breakage
that leaves one with no access to their desktop, should be avoided at
all cost.

I also have not seen any documentation on how to manually restore the
previous (gnome-panel) default.  I may have just missed it, but the
"Desktop Effects" selector doesn't appear to make a difference.  This
too should have been fixed before the switch was implemented.

Nathaniel