Not obvious session is "live" from CD

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Starting with at least Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 5 in the Gnome desktop environment it says "Live session user" on the gnome panel. Do you think this makes it obvious enough? Thanks in advance.

That sounds much better. However before I close the bug, I'd prefer to try it out on a random user.

Back to Confirmed for now to stop this auto-expiring; please get back to us once you've seen how this comes across.

I don't think this is enough, There are 3 things needed to really fix this bug.
1) Change "Start or Install Ubuntu" to something else, Perhaps "Start Ubuntu (then Install)"
2) Make it discoverable what a LiveCD is. Perhaps by clicking on Live Session User?
3) Some way to inform them they are saving files to a LiveCD and that they will NOT be saved.

We now (in Hardy) have two CD boot menu options:

  * Try Ubuntu without any change to your computer
  * Install Ubuntu

How does this feel?

I'd like to avoid having to explain what a live CD is if possible; the "Try Ubuntu without any change to your computer" language seems more natural to me and avoids having to introduce jargon.

So these are actually 2 matters:
- the boot menu, for which i like Colin Watson's idea above
- Reminding people (not necessarily the same person) that data is not saved on harddrive and will be gone on shutdown/reboot unless actively saved on-line, via USB, etc.

Also you might want to add a "stick in a USB now if you want to use that as home directory" in the boot menu

USB is a little more involved; you need to prepare the stick in a special way. I don't think there's room to squeeze this into the boot menu.

I'll ask for ideas on ubuntu-devel on making it clear what's going on with regard to data.

Perhaps we could have a note on the wallpaper saying:

"Please note: Ubuntu is not yet installed on your computer, and any changes made here will be lost upon reboot. To install Ubuntu, double-click on the "Install" icon."

Please discuss the possibilities on the ubuntu-devel thread I started ("Subject: Data retention reminder on live CD").

I responded there, but it said my comment is being held for moderation.

Just to correct the previous note (somehow my email didn't get through), it should be this:

"Please note: Ubuntu is not yet installed on your computer, thus any changes made here will be lost upon reboot. To install Ubuntu, double-click on the "Install" icon."

That's more clear :)

I think the already made changes *might* be enough.
As long as it will stop you from doing anything that needs a reboot (nvidia driver, etc) and tells you that it can't because it's a liveCD.
Does it do that last part?

I don't think that's done, but it probably needs to be a separate bug against jockey.

Fixed in Hardy