Hey John, This is a sore point indeed, GNOME Shell won't run on VirtualBox (the only cross-platform/user-friendly/ opensource desktop virtualization app), same for KVM (I don't know what's the state for VMWare though).
This really troubles me, a lot of people these days (certainly a lot of Mac guys) run Linux on a VM, at the same time, the Unity guys have managed to get their stuff running on top of the VirtualBox 3D driver. I do not know what is going on at the technical side (probably clutter requiring OpenGL extensions VirtualBox doesn't implement), but certainly something worth investigating with the clutter guys. Then again, I think we should keep the fallback mode as close to the 2.x look as possible tbh to avoid confusion. Maybe showing a startup splash explaining it the first time it falls back. My 2cents 2011/3/16 John Stowers <john.stowers.li...@gmail.com>: > Hi All, > > This morning I saw this - > http://www.webupd8.org/2011/03/classic-gnome-3-beta-2-video-no-shell.html > > From the comments I conclude that people have no idea what the > classic/fallback desktop is and how it relates to G3. > > Another conclusion could be; that humanity is doomed. > > Perhaps the marketing team could address the first point. > > John > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > marketing-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > -- Un saludo, Alberto Ruiz -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list