GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 57362
gdm should show what "Last" refers to
Last modified: 2005-04-12 16:10:47 UTC
gdm should update the Session and Language menus after the username has been entered to show what "Last" will give the user. Another option would be to remove "Last" from the list and update the description of the Last session to have (Last) after it. That may be a better solution if your Last session is not installed on the machine -- you won't have a Last option.
I've seen this on SUN machines and it is pretty usefull. That is having the user's settings displayed correctly when their name is first entered may be usefull. Is this something that we can look at implementing?
Has anything further been done with this issue?
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Would you be able to provide a patch?
I've been thinking about this bug, and don't think this is a good feature to implement. First of all, it isn't good to access the users $HOME directory before authentication. Second of all, if the user changes their session or language to a different value than their default, then a pop-up is displayed asking the user if they want this new value to be their new default, just be used for the session, or cancel back to the login screen. To me, this seems to work well enough.