This kind of utter bullshit is exactly why linux is a marginal player in the desktop, and becoming even moreso (according to browser market share, at least). If a major feature is broken in an upstream package, how about this for a suggestion: keep the last version that worked, or write a patch to remove the feature temporarily. Don't get so version happy that you're willing to package a broken GNOME that advertises a feature that doesn't work. It only backfires, because it alienates the living crap out of users, and gives Ubuntu the appearance of a bush league operating system. Just throwing your hands up and saying "this is an upstream problem endemic to open source" is chicken sh*t. If that's true, then you're basically saying open source is incapable of providing a quality operating system, because there is always going to be stuff breaking upstream in an actively developed project.
On the other hand, if the attitude is simply that it's ok for interim releases to suck, I'd strongly suggest Ubuntu "management" rethink that strategy. If somebody new to linux downloads "the latest" Ubuntu, they just get the one with the biggest version number. They don't know about LTS or what that really means. If that version is broken, they go back to Windows or the Mac, and it's another person who thinks Linux is a joke. This whole experiment in open source isn't going to work if users are treated with such contempt that it's considered acceptable to release an OS where a major feature is just plain broken. Really, gentlemen, how hard would it have been to just patch GNOME to remove the "Options" tab in Sessions Preferences? -- gnome-session storing broken in intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/249373 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
