My brother just lost several hours' worth of work because of this "feature" of Ubuntu. Needless to say, the chances of him ever considering using Ubuntu in the future are now precisely zero. As you can imagine, he was fairly vocal about what he thought of Ubuntu, and quite frankly, I couldn't think of anything to say in Ubuntu's defense.
Why would "Linux For Human Beings" assume that anyone knew about this behaviour? I've been using Ubuntu for many years and didn't know about it. As it stands, this is nothing less than Ubuntu deleting your files without asking and without warning. I can't see any reason why this would be considered anything other than a bug in Ubuntu's design. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gdm-guest-session in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/435930 Title: Guest session does not warn about temporary nature of files Status in “gdm-guest-session” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in Baltix GNU/Linux: New Bug description: Hi all, this is not a bug per se, rather a request for a feature. One of the users I support has allowed someone to use his desktop using the "Guest Session", not realising that files saved during this session do not persist after logout. The person in question proceeded to do a good few hours work on the machine, saving files to the Guest Session desktop. They were of course extremely dismayed when they logged in again, only to find that their work has disappeared. I think it would be a nice feature if, upon logging into the Guest Session, a splash screen appeared telling the user in no uncertain terms that any files they saved during the session would not persist after they logged out. I am a linux sysadmin and I was unaware of this property of the Guest Session and had to search online for an explanation for the behavior which, I'm sure you agree, is not ideal. Thanks in advance, Dan T. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm-guest-session/+bug/435930/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
