Ubuntu
gnome-session package

Desktop name order in XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP for Unity

Bug #1680008 reported by Alberts Muktupāvels on 2017-04-05

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-session (Ubuntu)	New	Low	Unassigned	Ubuntu later

Bug Description

Unity has changed XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP from "Unity" to "Unity:Unity7". Order of desktop names is not consistent with existing XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP values - GNOME-Classic:GNOME, GNOME-Flashback:GNOME, Budgie:GNOME...

Derived desktop names are put before base desktop name. Since Unity desktop name is shared between Unity 7 and 8 it should be put last - Unity7:Unity, Unity8:Unity.

This might not matter today, but it could in future...

Revision history for this message

Iain Lane (laney) wrote on 2017-04-05:

not needed for zesty, but could fix for zesty+1

Changed in gnome-session (Ubuntu):
milestone:	none → later

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Alberts Muktupāvels (muktupavels) wrote on 2017-04-05:

50_ubuntu_sessions.patch Edit (2.4 KiB, text/plain)

Mathew Hodson (mhodson) on 2017-04-15

Changed in gnome-session (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low

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Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) wrote on 2017-08-30:

This fix might not be needed due to the switch to GNOME in Ubuntu 17.10. Also, the patch provided is not in debdiff format. If this fix is relevant for Ubuntu 17.10, please attach a debdiff and resubscribe ~ubuntu-sponsors.

Unsubscribing ~ubuntu-sponsors as there's nothing left to do.