Comment 4 for bug 2060817

After doing some experimenting, it's possible to override using a separate package and doing a `dpkg-divert` to divert the systemd user service for an executable to temporarily change the XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP variable for this executable only. This would allow for something you propose. However, time is running short, and if this can be done quickly, then we can do that.

Overriding the XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP variable to anything other than `ubuntu:GNOME` makes it default, and I'm not 100% convinced it's useful at that point, meaning we might just blacklist it from the installation altogether.

Really, I'd be happy if I could just override the "Welcome to Ubuntu Noble Numbat" with "Welcome to Edubuntu Noble Numbat" somehow (it looks like it's getting that from /etc/lsb-release), skip the Ubuntu Pro screen (it's ambiguous if it even applies to flavors), and basically be able to s/Ubuntu/Edubuntu/ if possible. The accent colors conforming would be nice, but that's not 100% necessary.

What's really missing is online accounts setup, which was our primary reason for having this in the past. This made it easy for teachers or students to simpy set-up their email accounts first thing. Now they have to be redirected to the system settings, which came as a surprise post-Beta. (I realize everything had been hung-up in proposed during time_t and xz-utils, but I made it *abundantly clear* during the Flavor Sync at Ubuntu Summit that this was not a feature we wanted to be without).