Fedora 17 Gnome 3 Desperate Plea

[Steven Stern]

On 12/29/2012 12:57 PM, Thomas Dineen wrote:
> Gentle People:
> 
>    A heartfelt plea from a user:
> 
> Please, Please, Please if you must keep Gnome 3 then
> Keep the "Fall Back Mode" in ALL future versions of Fedora.
> Otherwise to me Fedora would be unusable.
> 
>    Please read the justification below:
> 
>      I just installed, last night, Fedora 17, on a PC! Things went very
> well overall.
> Bravo good work!
> 
>     Following this I successfully loaded all the updates with the update
> tool,
> and again bravo it worked!
> 
>     But, But, But I have found a number of what I consider disastrous
> bugs in Gnome 3,
> too many to list here!
> 
>     But I include a few:
> 
> 1) The on screen menus, located at the top left of the screen, seem very
> dark, to
> the point of being almost unreadable. Keep in mind it is not just the
> monitor, an HP
> w2408h, in that the computer shares the monitor with three others via a
> four way switch.
> The other computers produce a bright screen, each working as expected.
> So is there
> any way to adjust this? Keeping in mind that I spent the evening going
> through the menus.
> 
> 2) Periodically parts of the screen, typically the area contained by the
> boundaries of menu
> entries will go all wankers, looking like a 1960's TV on an antenna that
> has lost horizontal
> sync.
> 
> 3) Periodically the letters of the menus become a garbled to the point
> of being unreadable!
> 
> 4) Gnome 3 crashes about once an hour under light loading.
> 
I think you should say "Fedora with Gnome 3 would be useless".  But...
You don't have to use Gnome 3 with Fedora. I don't.




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-- Steve