Help strings for session related command line options not very informative

Bug #828359 reported by Gerhard Burger
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Light Display Manager
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lightdm (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

In the strings https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/+source/lightdm/+pots/lightdm/nl/+translate?&start=22&batch=3
the help strings for the command line options are basically the command line options without the dashes. This is not very informative, in my opinion the comments in the lightdm.conf file (eg http://pastebin.com/TivTnr6q) are more descriptive and I recommend to use those instead.

Tags: bitesize
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
Changed in lightdm:
status: New → Confirmed
tags: added: bitesize
Changed in lightdm:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Benjamin Kerensa (bkerensa) wrote :

The comments section of lightdm.conf don't really seem to correspond to the help strings you refer to in the /po files.... Could you elaborate more?

Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Incomplete
Changed in lightdm:
status: Triaged → Incomplete
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Gerhard Burger (burger.ga) wrote :

If you go for instance to items 25-27, you can see that the helpstrings for the commands are basically the commands themselves but without the dashes, this is not informative at all. Take for example the flag "--greeter-session", what is the added value of the help string "Greeter session"? The help string from the conf is "Session to load for greeter" which is better I think.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for lightdm (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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