Package: gnome-shell Severity: wishlist It would be nice if gnome-shell could handle failures from drivers (e.g. mesa) more gracefully.
For example, I have a hexcore AMD processor and if I try to emulate a SandyBridge CPU in qemu (but my CPU doesn't actually support the same features) and then boot a live CD running a current version of Gnome, gnome-shell will crash with the "Oh no!" screen being displayed. Instead of failing hard like this it would be preferable if gnome-shell could somehow fall back to a configuration that is practically guaranteed to work.Running with a suboptimal or degraded configuration would be better than not running at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
