Comment 7 for bug 322465

Relation with graphics drivers: UNR's launcher uses Clutter which requires a working OpenGL stack; this used to be rare, but is nowadays common. The classic desktop doesn't require GL support in anyway (falls back from compiz to metacity for window management if no GL present) which is why desktop-switcher was shipped to allow this last resort option of using a classic desktop when GL wasn't working.

Getting back to netbook mode > short of wiping all your settings (rm -rf ~/.gconf), there's no definitive way to recover from any situation; sorry.

Removing from repos > we certainly will, but we were hoping to fix the ugliest issues before release but didn't manage to; removing it from the repos wouldn't remove it from your computer, but I agree we could force the removal in some other way.