IMHO I think this will become an issue only after Gnome Shell has been published as "stable" release. Gnome Shell is in heavy development, so it may not work, and then you need a backend - and that's metacity.
Also, in my humble opinion, this change should be done to package gdm for example, making it depend on metacity or mutter. Or something like that, you get the idea... I'm no expert in these things, so leaving as "New" -- should Conflicts and Provides metacity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/435949 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs