On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 10:47 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Matthias Clasen
<mclasen(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 11:21 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> Hey, folks. Just a note that I set up a tracker bug for known cases
>> where trying to start GNOME 3 results in something totally unusable -
>> Shell fails and fallback does not work correctly. So far there's a
>> couple of bugs blocking it. The tracker is
>>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678116 , it has the alias
>> F15GNOMEfail. Please add any appropriate bugs to it, for convenience.
>> thanks!
>
> Thanks, that is useful. Fallback is under active development atm.
I think we need to distinguish between hardware/driver specifc bugs
versus general ones.
In fixing the bugs, sure...I think having a single list of all the known
instances of 'houston, we have a problem' is helpful though.
Both of the ones on the list look
hardware-specific.
Well, I mean, I think just about _all_ bugs of this kind are going to be
hardware-specific somehow. The only way that wouldn't be the case is if
the fallback mechanism were somehow utterly and completely broken in
implementation; once you've written a fallback mechanism that at least
theoretically does what it's supposed to do, all bugs are 'corner
cases', yes?
Fixing these kinds of things will involve at a
minimum a lot of back and forth with the reporter, running tools,
looking at output, etc. We may be able to do some of this for F15,
but barring some major jump in manpower, it's unlikely we can do *all*
of them.
Sure; I'm not assuming we will. I just want to have a single place where
we can quickly go to get an overview of such bugs.
I think we're going to need to have an always-fallback hardware
blacklist somewhere. Where exactly that lives and how it works is up
for debate. I'd strawman that we make a new module/RPM
"gnome-shell-blacklist" and insert it in the startup path, but better
ideas are welcome.
That's up to you folks :)
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