fallback mode

From: Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>

To: distributor-list gnome org

Cc: GNOME release team <release-team gnome org>

Subject: fallback mode

Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 10:42:59 -0500

I'm writing to inform you that the release team discussed https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointSeven/Features/DropOrFixFallbackMode yesterday. We've come to the conclusion that we can't maintain fallback mode in reasonable quality, and are better off dropping it. We're now working on organizing this so that it does not create more fallout than necessary. As part of this, I'm reaching out to our distributors to see what parts they care about. We haven't worked out a detailed plan for 3.8 tasks yet, but the feature page should give you a good idea about what things will be part of the 3.8 plan: - remove the 'forced fallback' ui in control-center - unify 'gnome can't run' and 'failwhale' UX - move background rendering entirely into gnome-shell; this is most likely to cause some problems for other environments that reuse g-s-d for background rendering. Splitting off the desktop-rendering functionality from nautilus is a separate issue, and does not necessarily have to happen for 3.8. Please watch the feature page for more details, as we work them out, and please contact us with your concerns. Lets work together and minimize the pain of this transition. Matthias, for the release team