The session title "Ubuntu on Wayland" is misleading

[Daniel van Vugt]

The session title "Ubuntu on Wayland" is misleading.

Gnome Shell is not running "on Wayland" at all. If you choose that option then mutter is running on the "eglnative" backend instead of the X11 backend.

I'm not suggesting we call the session "Ubuntu on eglnative", as that would make it more confusing. But I wonder if we can find a session title that avoids implying the impossible situation that the shell runs "on Wayland". Because the current title makes many people think that's what's happening.

Actually, Wayland doesn't come into the picture at all until you start an app. Only then is "Wayland" used at all as the protocol between the app and the shell, sometimes.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubuntu-session 3.27.91-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-10.11-generic 4.15.3
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 7 09:59:25 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-12-12 (84 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20171211)
SourcePackage: gnome-session
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)