reopen 613491 thanks i only noticed a few days ago when i built a new debian desktop system that gdm is no longer available, in favour of gdm3.
gdm3 is NOT an adequate replacement for gdm. useful features that are readily apparent and easily configurable in gdm are either missing completely or hidden in gdm3. compare, for instance, the configuration options in the System->Administration->Login Window dialog for gdm vs the nearly useless equivalent dialog for gdm3. even figuring out something simple, like how to disable the privacy-infringing & security-reducing user list(*) on the login screen is beyond the average user that the cretinous over-simplification trend of gnome "improvements" is supposed to cater for. How many of them are going to figure out that you need to edit /etc/gdm3/greeter.gconf-defaults and add "/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true"? (*) the fact that Apple does it with Mac OS X and Microsoft does it with Windows does not make it a good idea or worthy of copying as the default. it takes away one of the things (the username) that someone needs to know in order to compromise an account on the system, so two-factor auth is now reduced to one-factor. and more complicated options like setting a timed or automatic login (useful e.g. for setting up an "appliance" like a mythtv frontend, to have it auto-login to the mythtv user) will be essentially impossible for the avg user. and HTF do you change the background image and "theme" for the login screen? i can't figure it out, nor do i want to have to spend hours hunting for a hint in the woefully incomplete and generally abysmal quality gnome documentation. all of these options and more are easily available and *OBVIOUS* in the old gdm Login Window preferences dialog. and completely missing from the gdm3 dialog. WTF? upgrades are supposed to bring *improvements*, not massive regressions. OK, the actual issues here are Gnome's fault but prematurely removing gdm from debian is debian's fault. (and yes, i am annoyed...but my annoyance is with the Gnome devs who seem determined to take what WAS shaping up to be a good desktop environment and turning it into a steaming turd. debian can and should be making more of an effort to insulate users from dumb upstream decisions) craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
