Today's GNOME3 funny

[Bill Davidsen]

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.

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