fallback message contains poor grammar

It'd be worth looking at bug 704409 when working on this.

Agreed, this is probably a bad experience to give users. It can pop up in cases where there is nothing wrong with the hardware, just that the software isn't up to snuff.

The dialog is ok for alpha releases but should be revisited by beta.

I don't think the dialog should start recommending installing different drivers, that just seems like fail. If we know newer drivers solve the issues then they should be packaged and installed.

Honestly I think this is a case where no warning message would be better. If they know the difference between classic and unity, it'll be obvious that they're not running unity; this dialog doesn't add to their knowledge in that situation. If they don't know the difference, then this dialog will just confuse them and make them worry that Ubuntu is broken.

On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 08:19:07PM -0000, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Agreed, this is probably a bad experience to give users. It can pop up
> in cases where there is nothing wrong with the hardware, just that the
> software isn't up to snuff.
>
> The dialog is ok for alpha releases but should be revisited by beta.
>
> I don't think the dialog should start recommending installing different
> drivers, that just seems like fail. If we know newer drivers solve the
> issues then they should be packaged and installed.

Right, I'd think that jockey would just recommend installing the
proprietary driver if it is appropriate for the hardware.

Could a native speaker suggest a better string? Subscribing Didier as well since displaying a dialog and asking to logout rather than doing that for the user was discussed earlier in the cycle and a design choice

"It seems that you do not have the hardware required to run Unity. Please choose the Ubuntu Classic Desktop at the login screen and you will be using the traditional environment."

That works for me.

Thanks for the suggestion, it's better to suggest something that telling just "poor grammar" which doesn't help non native speaker…

So, we need to hilight more in ubiquity that they can install proprietary driver to have the full ubuntu experience.

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-session - 2.32.1-0ubuntu14

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gnome-session (2.32.1-0ubuntu14) natty; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/02_add_ubuntu_session.patch:
    - add a better wording (LP: #712091)
  * debian/control.in:
    - recommends unity-2d as a gnome-panel | unity alternative (LP: #708928)
  * debian/patches/05_enhance_fallback_mode.patch:
    - change the multi-fallback handling, now a list of key in the keyfile is
      provided to FallbackSessionsID. If the fallback is found, the matching
      <keyname>_Message will be displayed if exists. (LP: #704409)
    - don't show "change user session" for now has gnome-control-center with
      that option won't be ready for natty (LP: #711920)
    - adapt the gnome session to the new format (LP: #707232)
  * debian/patches/02_add_ubuntu_session.patch:
    - adapt to new format
    - set ubuntu as the default session if no argument is given
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:17:57 +0100