Why no icons? Was, Re: How to switch back to metacity

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 05/29/2011 08:25 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> They have the power to say "not ready" though. And the alpha of fc15
> shipped
> with a GNOME3 which runs in a VM and doesn't require a magic video card. Was 
> that capability deliberately removed from the final fc15, or was it part of the 
> official GNOME3 release and absolutely unfixable? Because running a GNOME3 
> desktop in a VM would be a low impact teaching tool, users could get their feet 
> wet without a full install on bare iron.

GNOME 3 runs fine on a VM including the fallback mode.  GNOME Shell also
runs on a VM if you look at the latest version of VirtualBox.  Work is
being done by Adam Jackson from Red Hat to include support for software
rendering of GNOME Shell or more accurately,  Clutter, the toolkit used
by GNOME Shell.  This is not done yet and it is not clear how efficient
it would be

Rahul