I (really, honestly!) mean no disrespect, but dev's please take a step back and re-focus - don't take this stuff too personally.. I am a developer too, and I work on free software. I've dealt with my fair share of frustrated (and somewhat ungrateful) users. It just appears that the Canonical desktop team doesn't fully appreciate how much trouble regressions like these are causing users.
Well, the new gdm is plainly not quite ready for production use. Despite how awesome it is, and how long it's been percolating, shouldn't it still be in a PPA, not in a much-hyped mainstream release. Ubuntu users are being used a little too much as guinea-pigs lately. This isn't necessarily wrong, but a "technology preview" warning would be nice, as opposed to the over-hyped countdown to these lesser sub releases, compelling distro-junkies (like me:) to upgrade. It would of course be nicer if LTS declarations of stable came around a little more often (they sort of get outdated real fast), and it was well advertised that all the 6 monthly's were technically beta release's (which they kinda are). Anyway, has anyone tried gdm-2.20 legacy? I'm assuming thats the previous->previous generation? I haven't yet been game to install it, as I've spent too many frustrating hours dealing with lots of other karmic upgrade issues. If it works, it would still be necessary to backport the Login screen component. -- 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 Sabily Team, which is a direct subscriber. Status in GDM: The Gnome Display Manager: New Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in gdm in Ubuntu Karmic: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: gdm In Karmic the Login Window Preferences option from the GNOME System -> Preferences menu is missing. I'm no longer able to configure gdm graphically. Something I was able to do until recently and in Jaunty. ------------ The new gdm : - discussion have started during the hardy uds 1.5 year ago - the new gdm has been accepted upstream by GNOME and used for over a year in several other distributions - the ubuntu team decided to wait on the change because of the known issues - the new version was available since jaunty in the ubuntu-desktop ppa and call for testing have been made - the change has been decided this cycle because karmic had technologies changes in view of the lts coming next cycle, it's better to use recent and maintainer codebases there - the canonical desktop team spent time this cycle writing a gdmsetup tool and fixing several issues in the new gdm version It's not perfect yet but is expected to be improved. Thanks for your patience! ------------- The changes are due to an upstream [Gnome] update , which was blocked in Ubuntu for 3 cycles . Any further discussions regarding lack of features can be discussed > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587750 or users can open new bugs regarding the missing features. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~sabily.team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~sabily.team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
