installing kubuntu-desktop fails to warn gdm users

[sem]

When installing kubuntu-desktop from the package manager in 10.10, you are given the choice of keeping gdm or using kdm as your login manager. Unfortunately gdm is the "wrong" choice, and causes breakage in sound control, removes the shutdown button from kde's menu, and perhaps other aspects. Nowhere in the installation process of kubuntu-desktop is this made clear. New users may suffer from some of these problems without realizing the cause.

A possible improvement would be in kdm's setup, include the text that kubuntu is meant to use kdm, and aspects of the desktop may not work as expected using gdm.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: kubuntu-desktop 1.205
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-30.59-generic 2.6.35.13
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-30-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Sep 19 17:21:04 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100928)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kubuntu-meta

[sem (semitones)]

One other thing I remember happening is that KDE would sometimes experience display breakage at at or after the loading screen. I have kdm in use now, so I don't remember the behavior exactly.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Kubuntu now uses lightdm, same as Ubuntu, so the highlighted issues do not present anymore.