"Login" button should be "Switch to" for already logged in users

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄]

Binary package hint: gdm

Clicking on the indicator applet, "New Session.." I get a logon screen (as expected). It shows a green tick next to my name showing I am logged in already. That's fine.

However if I click my username to get back in, the buttons become [cancel] and [login].

Login implies to me that it will login with a new session. I don't want to do that, I want ti "Switch to" the existing session.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 30 00:45:20 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gdm 2.27.90-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-7.27-generic-pae
SourcePackage: gdm
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-7-generic-pae i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

There is a similar issue on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591082

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug has been fixed upstream now

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

As part of the usual LTS approach of SRUing GNOME bug fix microreleases I prepared an update to gdm 2.30.2 which fixes this problem. I uploaded the package to the desktop PPA for now: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/+archive/ppa

For testing, you can do

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-desktop/ppa
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get upgrade

Early feedback appreciated!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

With 2.30.2 I still see "Log In", and not "Switch to" for users who already have a session, both in the face browser and in the "enter user name" cases. So I'll remove this bug reference from the SRU.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

The original GNOME bug was sidetracked to fix something else, so I filed a new upstream report as per upstream's request.