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Bug 302165 - "Last" and "Default System Session" options aren't useful
"Last" and "Default System Session" options aren't useful
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 302162
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
: 57531 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-04-27 13:30 UTC by Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
Modified: 2006-07-18 18:09 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.9/2.10


Description Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) 2005-04-27 13:30:55 UTC 
Distribution/Version: Ubuntu 5.04

Steps to reproduce:
1.  From the login screen, click "Session...".
2.  Look at the list of sessions.

What you see, among other options):
*   "Last"
*   "Default System Session"

These options aren't useful, because (a) they're redundant with one or two of
the other options, and (b) you're not told what "sessions" they are.

Instead, I suggest:
*   the last session used should just be pre-selected when you open the dialog,
    rather than being a separate item;
*   the default setting should be shown next to the session name (for example,
    "Gnome (default)"), rather than being a separate item.
Comment 1 Brian Cameron 2005-04-27 16:40:21 UTC 
*** Bug 57531 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Sebastien Bacher 2005-07-22 10:26:29 UTC 
Ubuntu bug about this: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12856
Comment 3 Brian Cameron 2006-07-17 19:29:17 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 302162 ***
Comment 4 Sebastien Bacher 2006-07-18 09:12:07 UTC 
are you sure that's a duplicate? that bug is about the session, the other one about the language
Comment 5 Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) 2006-07-18 10:01:50 UTC 
Yes, different bugs (though some elements of the fixes may be similar).
Comment 6 Brian Cameron 2006-07-18 18:09:37 UTC 
Closing this bug again as a duplicate.  I've updated the other bug to more
clearly highlight the differences in this bug report.  Thanks for noticing this.

The other bug contains discussion which applies to both bugs that should be
considered before making a change here.  It's easier to have one bug that to
duplicate the discussion here.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 302162 ***