Thanks for your time and explanations Dylan. Obviously we disagree on some aspects, I'm not going to answer in too long here because you're right on one point : a bug reporting tool is not a web forum, so this is surely not the right place for arguing for pages.
So I'm first being more specific just on a short technical point : About the DM. Previous Ubuntu releases did not have a config tool for choosing WHICH DM to use (you're right) but they DID have a config tool to configure HOW the default DM (which was GDM) behaved, i.e.: - Should we list the existing users and let the user click, or have the user type the username ? - Should we have autologin for a given user name ? - After some timeout or immediately ? - Etc. This DID exist in Natty Control Panel and previously. This has disappeared in Oneiric. About the fact of having to file several separate bug reports for all this, OTOH, I strongly disagree with you. IMHO the "Control Panel" is ONE thing, seing it having lost 80% of its contents is ONE issue. Thus ONE bug report - even though every single lost icon could be considered separately, seing an almost empty control panel where it used to be pretty full and complete is ONE issue from a user (not a developper) standpoint. Developpers can ask users to cooperate and file bug reports. Users like myself do spend much time beta-testing stuff and filing bug reports (which doesn't always receive wife-approval ;-) - for the good of all the Ubuntu community. But once a bug report is filed, it's extremely demotivating, as the bug reporter, to be told "so instead of one bug report about this, please file 3 others about this, that, and there". As a (stupid) user, I find an issue, I report the issue. If I'm asked for more precisions, logs, screenshots, I'll give them happily. But it's definitely not the user's business to sort things out further. It's a developper's issue, it's a distro maintainer's issue, etc, to dispatch a given existing bug report into pieces if needed. The user has no clue - and doesn't need to have any - in the way the engine is built. So IMHO an almost empty Control Panel is ONE issue. Please feel free to dispatch it into several sub-issues if you feel so, but don't tell me this report is invalid in itself. Kind regards. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/858888 Title: [Oneiric] Poor man's control center To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/858888/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
