GNOME sessions need renaming (too many people are choosing the X11 one over Wayland)

Bug #1693113 reported by Daniel van Vugt
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gnome-session (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

GNOME sessions need renaming (too many people are choosing the X11 one over Wayland).

This would be because:

X11 is named "GNOME"
Wayland is named "GNOME on Wayland"

A consequence of many people choosing the former is a high rate of X11 crashes: bug 1556601 and bug 1505409

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-session 3.24.1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-20.22-generic 4.10.8
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.5-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed May 24 14:55:48 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-05-03 (21 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170502)
SourcePackage: gnome-session
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

The prefix, and the default session, have both changed now. No bug.

Changed in gnome-session (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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