Comment 73 for bug 395299

I (really, honestly!) mean no disrespect, but dev's please take a step back and re-focus - don't take this stuff too personally.. I am a developer too, and I work on free software. I've dealt with my fair share of frustrated (and somewhat ungrateful) users.
It just appears that the Canonical desktop team doesn't fully appreciate how much trouble regressions like these are causing users.

Well, the new gdm is plainly not quite ready for production use. Despite how awesome it is, and how long it's been percolating, shouldn't it still be in a PPA, not in a much-hyped mainstream release.

Ubuntu users are being used a little too much as guinea-pigs lately. This isn't necessarily wrong, but a "technology preview" warning would be nice, as opposed to the over-hyped countdown to these lesser sub releases, compelling distro-junkies (like me:) to upgrade. It would of course be nicer if LTS declarations of stable came around a little more often (they sort of get outdated real fast), and it was well advertised that all the 6 monthly's were technically beta release's (which they kinda are).

Anyway, has anyone tried gdm-2.20 legacy? I'm assuming thats the previous->previous generation?
I haven't yet been game to install it, as I've spent too many frustrating hours dealing with lots of other karmic upgrade issues.
If it works, it would still be necessary to backport the Login screen component.