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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – Quote: I'm writing to inform you that the release team discussed https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointSev...ixFallbackMode 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 o (HowTos)

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Submitted by unic on 11/09/2012

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It's official: the GNOME project will be dropping the GNOME 2-like fallback mode in the 3.8 release. "We've come to the conclusion that we can't maintain fallback mode in reasonable quality, and are better off dropping it."

It's official: the GNOME project will be dropping the GNOME 2-like fallback mode in the 3.8 release.

I've been on 13.04 since alpha and have gotten really used to gnome fallback with compiz again (it wasn't as well evolved when I switched to Gnome shell in the first place). I have set this up the way I like and am now afraid of the next or second next update dropping beloved fallback mode.

Moving forward, what are my best options in your eyes? Never update gnome from now on?

Well, well, well... what do you know, after all the fuss about the GNOME Fallback mode being removed from the upcoming GNOME 3.8 desktop environment, it looks like the GNOME developers decided to implement a similar mode for all you GNOME 2 nostalgics out there. Yes, come an get the good news, as the GNOME 3.8 desktop environment will have ... (read more)

Development: GNOME 3.7.3 21 weeks 1 day ago

Hi all.

GNOME 3.7 development is well underway, with the 3.7.3 snapshot that is marking the third release of this development cycle [1].

To compile GNOME 3.7.3, you can the jhbuild [3] modulesets [4] (which use the exact tarball versions from the official release).

Matthias Clasen reports a few days ago that the upcoming GNOME 3.8 desktop environment will bring a revamped GNOME Fallback mode based entirely on GNOME Shell extensions. So, look what the cat dragged in!  GNOME Legacy, this will be the name of the new mode of the GNOME 3.8 desktop environment, which will reassemble both GNOME Fal... (read more)

In dropping fallback mode, GNOME made the right decision -- and utterly failed to communicate that fact.

I have installed the notify-osd package but it does not look like gnome 3 in fallback mode is using it.I want the volume osd as in Ubuntu at the upper right.My /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-fallback.sessionRequiredComponents=gnome-panel;gnome-settings-daemon; RequiredProviders=windowmanager; DefaultProvider-windowmanager=metacity DefaultProvider-notifications=notify-osd

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I have to disable compositing in X to get good video playback. If I do this Gnome will give me the usual 'Your graphics driver doesn't support this' type message and reverts to fallback mode. I was assuming it would use software rendering and maintain Gnome 3. Do I have to force it? '

After installing F18, we got problems with remote logins: To have a usable GNOME 3 desktop, fallback mode has to be enabled (System Settings > Details > Graphics > Forced Fallback Mode => ON). Otherwise, the desktop (background, application windows, ...) is scrambled.