GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 643107
Misleading "graphics hardware" in fallback massage
Last modified: 2011-03-14 10:46:51 UTC
from gnome-session/gsm-manager.c "This most likely means your graphics hardware is not capable to run the full GNOME 3 experience" Not sure you what are currently checking in code, but I suppose gnome-shell could fail to load (or crash while running) even if you have a proper hardware, but "wrong" driver. So could be good change this message to This most likely means your graphics system is not capable to run the full GNOME 3 experience or a little more self explaining This most likely means your graphics system (hardware or driver) is not capable to run the full GNOME 3 experience So the poor user will avoid to go out and buy a newly released, super expensive (and still unsupported) GPU :)
Also note the original message should either say: "...able to run the full..." or "capable of running the full..." I think the choice of using "run" there is pretty strange too. You don't run an experience - you provide one.
Alex was talking to people about the design of this dialog.
This is shown only if we're detecting a problem with gnome-session-is-accelerated, which could be a lack of driver or a lack of required features in the driver (not a crash due to driver issues). So, perhaps "driver" should somehow also be in the message. I'm not the right person to decide the best wording though, the message as-is comes from jimmacs mockup.