@Mark W. To maintain a respectful atmosphere, please follow the code of conduct - http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct/ .
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 01:20 +0000, Mark W wrote: > 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. > You seem to not have understood , what this bug report is for... Previously there was no menu item System> Administration>Login Screen That is the graphical tool that was fixed by this bug. Previously even those basic configurations werent available. And that was added by the Ubuntu desktop team [FYI , Sebastien is part of the Desktop team] > * Rushing this version of GDM was a bad idea. * As already mentioned there was *no* rushing! this has been *not* used for 1.5 yrs. > > 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. BTW, Does LinutMint have a graphical tool for this latest version of gdm? NO! So even their gdm wouldnt be easily configurable. As you previously said : " distro-junkies (like me:) " are bound to face new changes. If such users want to use the latest version there are bound to face such side-effects... If they wanted to use the older version, they could might as well stick with 9.04 which has all the features they want. > 2. Security: Let's face it, users are more likely to stuff it up when > configuring manually. What security? either way these are separate bugs about any missing features. > 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. > Beauty is subjective , and such comments are really not constructive. BTW , what does a user really do at the login screen? If it is ugly why do you keep staying at the login screen ;) ... just start your session and move on... :) If you had such strong sentiments you could have participated in the discussions during development phase. The appropriate place for such discussions is *not* this bug report , but rather in these mailing lists: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop -- gdm 2.26 has no graphical configuration tool https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/395299 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs