Comment 9 for bug 818864

Yves-Alexis Perez <email address hidden> writes:

> But note that *preventing* people to chose what they're used to might
> not be the wisest.
>
Indeed. I don't really care if I have to tweak configs to enable my
~/.xsession script to be used, but with the Debian package, before this
issue had been fixed (assuming the .desktop file in question would have
been included as an example instead), I'd have had to:

# cp -a /usr/share/xsessions /etc
# cp /usr/share/doc/lightdm/examples/default.desktop /etc/xessions
# $EDITOR /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf # to change the directory lightdm
                                    # looks for .desktop files in

Additionally, I would have had the burden to update my copy of the
desktop files in /etc/xessions, should they change in the package.
IMHO, for my usecase, that's quite more inconvinient than for some user
not caring about ~/.xsession just to ignore the corresponding dropdown
box entry.

> I don't really agree with the “confuse normal users in 99% of the
> case” (but again, it might depend which users we are considering).
>
If it's really decided, that for the Debian package, the default
Xsession should not be present in the menu, I'd at least expect
prominent documentation on how to enable this feature in
/usr/share/doc/lightdm/README.Debian (or somewhere similiar). Of
course, *I* prefer having that feature enabled by default (and thanks
for the fix, BTW).

Regards, Rotty
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Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.yi.org/>