Sebastian, please lighten up. I'm sorry to have to say this, but you
have created more negativity than others regarding this issue by pushing
down legitimate complaints.

* Rushing this version of GDM was a bad idea. *

GDM is an important package: It's (usually) the first user interactive
component a Ubuntu user is greeted with after BIOS/Grub. Take a look at
LinuxMint 7. They nailed it, the boot to login process is beautiful all
the way. New users can't wait to see what's next.. Even though it's
basically just Ubuntu with a (very) pretty desktop theme.

Anyway, the obvious lack of configurability with GDM noted here is just
one problem...

1. XDMCP -> Some of us actually use thin-clients. 
2. Security: Let's face it, users are more likely to stuff it up when 
configuring manually.
3. The default is just plain ugly and should never have been approved. Sorry, 
but black on brown sucks.
4. Being slowed down and forced to click on a name in an ugly userlist is 
counter-intuative to useability.

During the upgrade process, Insufficient migrationary stuff was done
with the config files.. It should have been automatic at least regarding
the settings that do have a counterpart in the new configuration.

Okay, individual bugs could be created for each of these issues and
perhaps more constructively dealt with, but the real problem here
appears to be a little inflexibility of the human kind..

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gdm 2.26 has no graphical configuration tool
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/395299
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