login greeter should be more upfront about which desktop environment it will start

[Per Ångström]

Unity's login greeter does not tell you more about which desktop enviroment it will start than showing its icon next to the user name. That is unsatisfactory, since some environments share the same icon ("Ubuntu" and "Ubuntu 2D", to just mention one example).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.12-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.39-generic 3.2.16
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,compiztoolbox,mousepoll,gnomecompat,grid,resize,regex,place,move,wall,vpswitch,snap,imgpng,unitymtgrabhandles,session,animation,workarounds,expo,fade,ezoom,scale,unityshell]
Date: Fri Jun 1 12:28:45 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100928.1)
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-30 (1 days ago)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, the 2 unity versions will be merge this cycle, do you have other cases where that's an issue? it's rather a request to improve icons for some desktops

[Per Ångström (autark)]

On 2012-06-01 13:03, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> ... do you have other cases where that's an issue?

Yes, "Gnome Classic" and "Gnome Classic (No Effects)" share the same
icon. In addition, "User defined session", Mate and Cinnamon all have
the same all-white (default?) icon.

> it's rather a request to improve icons for some desktops

Since you cannot reasonably enforce unique icons for every possible
desktop, I think something more may be necessary, at the very least a
mouse-over pop-up.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.