[gnome-flashback] Bug nominations for 3.8.1

[Philipp Kaluza]

Hi pkg-gnome-maintainers,

please also make your opinions known on the below topic.

Am 24.10.2013 17:14, schrieb Philipp Kaluza:
> Hi Dmitry, hi All,
>
> Am 21.10.2013 12:46, schrieb Philipp Kaluza:
>> Please nominate bugs with patches that should be merged into the 3.8.1
>> release.
>> I hope to roll a release at the end of this week.
> So one thing I wanted to bring up before the release:
>
> I'm planning to rename the xsession file to gnome-flashback.desktop also.
>
> Ideally this should have gone into 3.8.0, but Jeremy reverted it, to
> keep compatibility where users had chosen the old
> "gnome-fallback.session" Debian / Ubuntu mode. I was torn about this at
> the time of the 3.8.0 release, but kept it for compatibility. Since
> then, I have learned that "gnome-fallback" actually means something
> different in ubuntu (flashback with compiz) than in debian (flashback).
>
> So I'd rather have a clean break, and have it now, before 3.8 really
> starts hitting distibutions.
>
> This would mean that in the future:
>  * "gnome-flashback.desktop" is the session file for plain Flashback
> mode (metacity+gnome-panel) everywhere.
>  * "gnome-fallback.desktop" in Ubuntu could start the compiz+gnome-panel
> mode, as it did in the past.
>  * "gnome-fallback.desktop" in Debian would disappear, or could point to
> the normal flashback mode, or could have a migration assistance in the DM.
>
> Speak now or forever hold your peace. :-)

For Debian this would mostly mean either
a) carrying the rename to the old name locally, _or_
b) reverting r39828 (BTW thank you pochu),
    and (possibly adding a little migration magic to gdm3).

Cheers
  Philipp

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Philipp Kaluza
Ghostroute IT Consulting