Session name has "Session"

Bug #1301056 reported by Ryan Lovett on 2014-04-01
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xfce4-session (Ubuntu)
Wishlist
Unassigned
xubuntu-default-settings (Ubuntu)
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

/usr/share/xsessions/xfce.desktop names the session "Xfce Session". In Ubuntu 14.04 with lightdm's unity-greeter, the session chooser appears as:

Select desktop environment
[icon] Fvwm
[icon] Openbox
[icon] Ubuntu
[icon] Xfce Session

I think it is more concise and consistent with other session names to just show "Xfce" there, though perhaps its a matter of taste and perhaps other display managers present the choice differently. I ran

grep ^Name=.*ession /usr/share/xsessions/*.desktop

on one system and Xfce's was the only session file to use the "Session" term. (On one system I had a mixture of gnome.desktop, gnome-shell.desktop, ubuntu-2d.desktop, etc.) Running the same command on kde-workspace-4.11.6/kdm/kfrontend/sessions/*.desktop yielded no results.

--- xfce4-session-4.10.1/xfce.desktop.in.orig 2013-05-05 08:33:55.000000000 -0700
+++ xfce4-session-4.10.1/xfce.desktop.in 2014-04-01 16:07:04.782763000 -0700
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [Desktop Entry]
 Version=1.0
-_Name=Xfce Session
+_Name=Xfce
 _Comment=Use this session to run Xfce as your desktop environment
 Exec=startxfce4
 Icon=

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in xfce4-session (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in xubuntu-default-settings (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in xfce4-session (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Changed in xubuntu-default-settings (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Elfy (elfy) on 2015-02-21
Changed in xfce4-session (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Opinion
Changed in xubuntu-default-settings (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Opinion
Changed in xubuntu-default-settings (Ubuntu):
status: Opinion → Won't Fix
Changed in xfce4-session (Ubuntu):
status: Opinion → Won't Fix
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