Ubuntu
hardinfo package

gnome session name is deprecated

Bug #285445 reported by Thorsten Hirsch
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
hardinfo (Ubuntu)
Incomplete
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

In Gnome under ->System ->Settings ->System Profiler and Benchmarks you can see this entry in the leaf "Operating System":

Current Session
  Desktop Environment GNOME 2.24 (session name: this-is-deprecared)

Ubuntu version is 8.10 beta1 + latest updates.

Revision history for this message
Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) wrote :

The problem is that GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID has been deprecated:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542880
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/svn-commits-list/2008-September/msg00369.html

And, as far as I can see, no substitute has ever been given. The only way I can think of to fix this properly for hardinfo would be to remove printing this value out.

Changed in hardinfo:
status: New → Confirmed
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Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) wrote :

I cannot confirm this on a Bionic install.

Changed in hardinfo (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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