Bug#626881: gnome-session: no way to access the preferences menu from fallback mode

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 05/19/2011 03:14 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mercredi 18 mai 2011 à 21:01 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor a écrit : 
>> I do have the "user menu" on the right.   However, it has a total of 6
>> items (not counting separators, which i'll indicate as "----"
>>
>>  * Available
>>    Busy
>>  ---
>>  ---
>>   Lock Screen
>>   Switch User
>>   Log Out...
>>  ---
>>   Shut Down...
> 
> Oh. You might be missing the new gnome-control-center package.

Indeed, if i install gnome-control-center/experimental, and then restart
the GNOME session, i get "My Account" and "System Settings" between the
doubled separators above.  Maybe the some dependency needs to be
versioned here?

I find that if i launch both of them in rapid succession (this is a
slower machine), either nothing comes up at all, or a new window flashes
briefly and disappears (i do see the little notifications in the taskbar
saying "Starting User Accounts" and "Starting System Settings").

When this happens, the following error message is written to
~/.xsession-errors:


(gnome-control-center:2905): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid
uninstantiatable type `(null)' in cast to `UmUserManager'


Maybe there's some sort of race condition as the panel is starting up?
I launched "My Account" first and "System Settings" immediately
thereafter, if you want to try to replicate it.

It's a bit counter-intuitive to me that the two menu options seem to
address the same application; i could see a user working on the system
settings, and then choosing "My Account" from the "me menu" and
wondering "where did my system settings go?"

> These menus are gone upstream. I’m wondering what to do of the remnants
> that won’t go in the gnome-control-center. Probably a sub-menu of
> Applications→System.

That seems reasonable.

Thanks for working on this,

	--dkg

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