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Bug 643107 - Misleading "graphics hardware" in fallback massage
Misleading "graphics hardware" in fallback massage
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-session
Classification: Core
Component: gnome-session
git master
Other All
: Normal trivial
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Assigned To: Session Maintainers
Session Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-02-23 18:31 UTC by Luca Ferretti
Modified: 2011-03-14 10:46 UTC
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Description Luca Ferretti 2011-02-23 18:31:23 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 :)
Comment 1 William Jon McCann 2011-02-23 18:41:14 UTC
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.
Comment 2 Vincent Untz 2011-02-23 18:50:36 UTC
Alex was talking to people about the design of this dialog.
Comment 3 Alexander Larsson 2011-03-10 10:16:00 UTC
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.