Fedora 16 and Gnome 3 Tested and Reviewed

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Thomas Milne <thomas.bruce.milne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>

| As has been widely and thoroughly reported, Gnome3 comes with a Gnome
| Classic alternative that can be selected from the login screen. It is
| identical to Gnome 2.x. There is no need for the hysterical reactions
| people are having to Gnome 3, it is entirely optional.

This does not seem to be the case on my Fedora 16 systems.  My session
manager offers GNOME or Xfce.  If I installed more, I could choose
more (eg. KDE).

I seem to remember that if you cripple your video driver so that it
does not support 3d stuff, Gnome 3 falls back to "GNOME Classic".
This isn't hard to do but seems dumb.  And it certainly isn't the way
forward -- Classic mode is not being maintained and video acceleration
is going to be simulated for hardware without support.

I am using Fedora 16 GNOME3 at the moment.  I'm giving it a try.  So
far it is a very minor pain.  I'd prefer it to go away but not enough
to do anything.  I find Ubuntu's Unity a bit more annoying.

I expect it will be more fun in a couple of months when Fedora 17
comes out.
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