Fallback mode
Fallback mode
Posted Mar 16, 2011 23:44 UTC (Wed) by GhePeU (subscriber, #56133)In reply to: Fallback mode by corbet
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience
I don't particularly like Nautilus, I've got at most a couple of directories and a few symlinks on my ~/Desktop because I use it mostly as a transient area, so that alone wouldn't be a great deal.
The thing is that the "classic" or "fallback" mode has been advertised as a way to keep using a mostly traditional GNOME 2 desktop; see jmalcolm's comment I originally responded to.
Well, it's not that. Icons on desktop, themes, font selection, panel applets, the fallback mode lost all the things that were stripped from GNOME 3, and also a lot of things that were a big part of the GNOME 2.
I suppose that somebody realized that if the users could choose between a fully working GNOME 2 and the shell most of them would have preferred the former, so something had to be done...