{"id":8181,"date":"2012-11-10T15:37:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T21:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8181"},"modified":"2012-11-22T17:28:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T23:28:58","slug":"gnome-3-8-is-dropping-its-fallback-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8181","title":{"rendered":"GNOME 3.8 Is Dropping Its Fallback Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Matthias Clasen on the behalf of the GNOME Release Team has announced that they have decided to eliminate GNOME&#8217;s &#8220;fallback mode&#8221; with the upcoming 3.8 release that allowed a &#8220;GNOME classic&#8221; mode that didn&#8217;t depend upon OpenGL\/3D rendering and was more like the GNOME2 traitional desktop.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=MTIyNTE\">[Phoronix] GNOME 3.8 Is Dropping Its Fallback Mode<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now for GNOME users without a proper GPU and drivers, if you want to still use GNOME, you will need to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/scan.php?page=search&amp;q=LLVMpipe\">LLVMpipe<\/a> for a software-accelerated experience of the GNOME Shell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gnome has totally gone off the rails.\u00a0 Luckily there is a fork for Gnome called <a href=\"http:\/\/mate-desktop.org\/\">Mate<\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/mate-desktop.org\/\">Mate<\/a> is supposed to be shipped with Fedora 18.\u00a0 I have used Mate in a <a href=\"http:\/\/linuxmint.com\/\">Linux Mint<\/a> virtual machine and it works well.\u00a0 I tried loading it into a Fedora 17 VM many months ago and it had problems but I&#8217;m sure all of that will get worked out.\u00a0 IMHO, Gnome has become a product of hubris.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve tried to use it and just can&#8217;t deal with the constant context switching to do simple tasks like opening a terminal window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthias Clasen on the behalf of the GNOME Release Team has announced that they have decided to eliminate GNOME&#8217;s &#8220;fallback mode&#8221; with the upcoming 3.8 release that allowed a &#8220;GNOME classic&#8221; mode that didn&#8217;t depend upon OpenGL\/3D rendering and was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8181\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287],"tags":[348,538,38],"class_list":["post-8181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interfaces","tag-desktop-environment","tag-fedora","tag-gnome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8346,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181\/revisions\/8346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}