[Pkg-ayatana-devel] Bug#586810: Bug#586810: Bug#586810: indicator-applet-session: unusable due to removal of gdm/gdm3

[Ted Gould]

On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 12:54 -0400, Andrew SB wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Teodor MICU <mteodor at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Raising the severity due to the fact that the package cannot be
> > installed in the current configuration. Probably this was fixed
> > somehow by Ubuntu since there it is installed by default with 'gdm3'.
> 
> This seems a bit unfortunate. I'm not sure why they would apply a
> patch to GDM which will probably not be accepted upstream when they
> control the upstream of indicator-applet-session. It seems like they
> could have better fixed this there.

The reason was for migration.  We wanted users who had already
configured their panels to have one to get a seamless migration.
Migrating gnome-panel configurations is very difficult, and not
recommended if you don't have to.

I'd recommend that Debian move the indicator-applet-session .server file
to match the rest of them in indicator-applet and not override the
FastUserSwitchApplet namespace as Debian does not have this migration
issue.

		--Ted

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