Bug#687573: gdm3: Using gdm-shell animation/transition for displaying password prompt takes too much time

[Paul Menzel]

Package: gdm3
Version: 3.4.1-2
Severity: minor
Tags: upstream
Control: forwarded -1 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683970

Dear Debian folks,


testing the gdm-shell by setting

        [org.gnome.desktop.session]
        session-name='gdm-shell

in `/etc/gdm3/greeter.gsettings` when selecting a user by clicking on
the user name, it takes around two seconds until the animation for
transitioning to the password dialog completes. The first time it looks
good but after that it decreases the productivity and users complain.

This is reported as bug 683970 in the GNOME Bugzilla bug tracking system
[1].

Although I consider this a high usability problem, I set the severity to
minor because using the gdm-shell is currently not enabled by default in
Debian.

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683970

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii  accountsservice                             0.6.21-6
ii  adduser                                     3.113+nmu3
ii  awesome [x-window-manager]                  3.4.13-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend                     0.12.1-2
ii  dconf-tools                                 0.12.1-2
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                       1.5.46
ii  dpkg                                        1.16.8
ii  gir1.2-freedesktop                          1.32.1-1
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0                             1.32.1-1
ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]           3.4.2.1-2
ii  gnome-session-bin                           3.4.2.1-2
ii  gnome-session-fallback [x-session-manager]  3.4.2.1-2
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                       3.4.2-5
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]        3.4.1.1-1+build1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                   3.4.2-1
ii  libaccountsservice0                         0.6.21-6
ii  libatk1.0-0                                 2.4.0-2
ii  libattr1                                    1:2.4.46-8
ii  libaudit0                                   1:1.7.18-1.1
ii  libc6                                       2.13-35
ii  libcairo-gobject2                           1.12.2-2
ii  libcairo2                                   1.12.2-2
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                          0.28-4
ii  libcanberra0                                0.28-4
ii  libdbus-1-3                                 1.6.2-2
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                            0.100-1
ii  libfontconfig1                              2.9.0-7
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                          2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                2.33.12+really2.32.3-1
ii  libglib2.0-bin                              2.33.12+really2.32.3-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                  3.4.2-3
ii  libpam-modules                              1.1.3-7.1
ii  libpam-runtime                              1.1.3-7.1
ii  libpam0g                                    1.1.3-7.1
ii  libpango1.0-0                               1.30.0-1
ii  librsvg2-common                             2.36.1-1
ii  libselinux1                                 2.1.9-5
ii  libupower-glib1                             0.9.17-1
ii  libwrap0                                    7.6.q-24
ii  libx11-6                                    2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxau6                                     1:1.0.7-1
ii  libxdmcp6                                   1:1.1.1-1
ii  libxklavier16                               5.2.1-1
ii  libxrandr2                                  2:1.3.2-2
ii  lsb-base                                    4.1+Debian7
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]                 1:2.34.3-3
ii  policykit-1-gnome                           0.105-2
ii  upower                                      0.9.17-1
ii  x11-common                                  1:7.7+1
ii  x11-xserver-utils                           7.7~3
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]                 278-2

Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii  desktop-base             7.0.3
ii  gnome-icon-theme         3.4.0-2
ii  libatk-adaptor [at-spi]  2.5.3-1
ii  x11-xkb-utils            7.7~1
ii  xserver-xephyr           2:1.12.3.902-1
ii  xserver-xorg             1:7.7+1
ii  zenity                   3.4.0-2

Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
ii  gnome-mag             1:0.16.3-1
ii  gnome-orca            3.4.2-2
ii  gnome-shell           3.4.2-1
ii  gok                   2.30.0-1
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  3.4.1-5

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/gdm3/greeter.gsettings changed:
[org.gnome.desktop.session]
session-name='gdm-shell'
[org.gnome.login-screen]
logo='/usr/share/icons/gnome/48x48/places/debian-swirl.png'
fallback-logo='/usr/share/icons/gnome/48x48/places/debian-swirl.png'
[org.gnome.power-manager]
icon-policy='never'
[org.gnome.metacity]
compositing-manager=false


-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3
  gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3
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