Allow lightdm to be an alternate recommends for gdm3
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-shell (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Xenial |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Yakkety |
Fix Released
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High
|
Unassigned | ||
Zesty |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Impact
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If an Ubuntu user installs gnome-shell, they will be shown a debconf prompt asking to choose between gdm3 and lightdm. No information is given as to why one or the other should be chosen.
This can be fixed by recommending gdm3 | lightdm
Test Case
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From Ubuntu (Unity), install gnome-shell. gdm3 should not be installed and there should be no debconf prompt.
Regression Potential
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None really. GDM does look a bit nicer with GNOME Shell than LightDM in 17.04 and older releases but if a user wants GNOME Shell to look nice, they should just install Ubuntu GNOME. It's not worth the avoidable debconf question for that.
Other Info
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This was already done for artful as part of the GNOME transition.
Users will still see a debconf prompt if they install ubuntu-
All Ubuntu "desktop" flavors except for Ubuntu GNOME and Kubuntu use LightDM. Kubuntu currently uses sddm, but no one has bothered to get sddm working with GNOME Shell.
summary: |
- Don't recommend gdm3 + Allow lightdm to be an alternate recommends for gdm3 |
description: | updated |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu Yakkety): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu Zesty): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → In Progress |
tags: |
added: verification-done-xenial verification-done-yakkety verification-done-zesty removed: verification-done |
Hello Jeremy, or anyone else affected,
Accepted gnome-shell into zesty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https:/ /launchpad. net/ubuntu/ +source/ gnome-shell/ 3.24.2- 0ubuntu0. 1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/Testing/ EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.
If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification- failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.
Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/QATeam/ PerformingSRUVe rification . Thank you in advance!