GNOME do launches with opened Guest Session

[Brewster Malevich]

Binary package hint: gnome-do

I'm on Karmic.
I'm have my GNOME-do set so that it silently launches whenever I log in. I recently launched a Guest Session when somone wanted to use my computer and the classic GNOME-do interface popped-up in the guest session.

 Shouldn't our "open on launch" option only apply to the current user account and not the entire system?
I don't ever recall typing 'sudo' to give GNOME-do the right to make this change system wide. I haven't tried this with other permanent user accounts.

Perhaps this has something to do with the way that the default guest session is created in Ubuntu, in which case, this bug should be moved to a different package. But this has only been an issue with GNOME-do.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Oct 10 17:06:05 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: gnome-do 0.8.2+dfsg-1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.43-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-do
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic x86_64

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

 status invalid

This is actually the expected behaviour. When you install gnome-do it
will be started by default, on the reasonable assumption that if you've
installed it you want it to start. That means it starts for all users
by default, and the guest user is one such user.

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

I disagree RAOF. I just ran into this oddity today myself. Installed a new user for my girlfriend and Do popped up. Surprised me actually.

Here's why *I* think it is a bug. The preferences has a checkbox to automatically start Do on login. This box is *not* checked by default. For my girlfriend's new user, when Do popped up I went into prefs and this box was not checked!

The bug may not be that it starts for all users, but its definitely inconsistent as to whether or not that behavior is intended.

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

So, would it be safe to say that the bug is not in the fact that it
autostarts, but in the fact that the preferences panel lies?

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

I would say its one or the other. So we have to have consensus on what the desired behavior is. :-)

[Brewster Malevich (brews)]

From an admin point of view, I think the program is taking a little too much liberty. I would not put this program on a work station w/ multiple users for just this reason.