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.. -- 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
