F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

[Ilyes Gouta]

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 23:09 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>
>>
>> But based on what they've said in the past, I expect that once most
>> hardware that previously needed the fallback mode is covered, fallback
>> mode will die. AIUI, fallback mode isn't meant to be a GNOME
>> 2-by-stealth for Shell refuseniks, it's purely an attempt to accommodate
>> hardware which doesn't support Shell.
>
> That's pretty accurate, yes.

One nice outcome is that we could end up with an optimized reference
s/w renderer (and kernel/user land stack) for all platforms. Which is
cool! :)

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