Comment 72 for bug 395299

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On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:

> > Who thinks up this crazy ideas?
>
> Hi,
>
> Could you stay correct and respect people doing work for free there on
> softwares you are can decide to use or not?
> It's also judged polite to subscribe to bugs you comment on so you get to
> read replies to waht you wrote
>
> The new gdm has been:
> - discussion have started during the hardy uds 1.5 year ago
> - the new gdm has been accepted upstream by GNOME and used for over a year
> in several other distributions
> - the ubuntu team decided to wait on the change because of the known issues
> - the new version was available since jaunty in the ubuntu-desktop ppa and
> call for testing have been made
> - the change has been decided this cycle because karmic had technologies
> changes in view of the lts coming next cycle, it's better to use recent and
> maintainer codebases there
> - the canonical desktop team spent time this cycle writing a gdmsetup tool
> and fixing several issues in the new gdm version
>
> You can't really blame the ubuntu team to hurrying this change there or
> not spending efforts on the transition, it's not perfect yet but is
> expected to be better for the coming lts version
>
> --
> gdm 2.26 has no graphical configuration tool
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/395299
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>
> Status in GDM: The Gnome Display Manager: New
> Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in gdm in Ubuntu Karmic: Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gdm
>
> In Karmic the Login Window Preferences option from the GNOME System ->
> Preferences menu is missing. I'm no longer able to configure gdm
> graphically. Something I was able to do until recently and in Jaunty.
> -------------
> The changes are due to an upstream [Gnome] update , which was blocked in
> Ubuntu for 3 cycles .
> Any further discussions regarding lack of features can be discussed >
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587750 or users can open new
> bugs regarding the missing features.
>

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Wes Garner
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