After doing some experimenting, it's possible to override using a
separate package and doing a `dpkg-divert` to divert the systemd user
service for an executable to temporarily change the XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
variable for this executable only. This would allow for something you
propose. However, time is running short, and if this can be done
quickly, then we can do that.
Overriding the XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP variable to anything other than
`ubuntu:GNOME` makes it default, and I'm not 100% convinced it's useful
at that point, meaning we might just blacklist it from the installation
altogether.
Really, I'd be happy if I could just override the "Welcome to Ubuntu
Noble Numbat" with "Welcome to Edubuntu Noble Numbat" somehow (it looks
like it's getting that from /etc/lsb-release), skip the Ubuntu Pro
screen (it's ambiguous if it even applies to flavors), and basically be
able to s/Ubuntu/Edubuntu/ if possible. The accent colors conforming
would be nice, but that's not 100% necessary.
What's really missing is online accounts setup, which was our primary
reason for having this in the past. This made it easy for teachers or
students to simpy set-up their email accounts first thing. Now they have
to be redirected to the system settings, which came as a surprise post-
Beta. (I realize everything had been hung-up in proposed during time_t
and xz-utils, but I made it *abundantly clear* during the Flavor Sync at
Ubuntu Summit that this was not a feature we wanted to be without).
** Changed in: gnome-initial-setup (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => New
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gnome-initial-setup hardcoded to Ubuntu branding, not overridable
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