Hi, On 05-03-2019 13:08, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > synaptic isn't installed by default in new Debian GNOME Buster > installs. I don't think it's necessary to remove software that doesn't > work in GNOME on Wayland.
How do users find out that Wayland is the cause, and that they can run the program in other environments? This strikes me as very user unfriendly in the default environment that we ship for programs that have worked properly in the default for a long time. > (For example, vino only works with GNOME on > Xorg but it's a very useful feature there. GNOME on Wayland has > gnome-remote-desktop but it's a bit immature still.) synaptic is a > very popular Debian-specific app among certain users. I used to use synaptic myself long time ago. I would find it very weird from Debian standards if it would fail with the errors I have seen in the bug reports. > As a workaround, I think it would be helpful if synaptic could report > a more helpful error message so that people can understand that they > can't use Synaptic in a Wayland session. Personally I would really want to see this happening if we want to ship synaptic in buster. > Please check your clone commands. I don't think they worked here. I noticed. Thanks for the reminder though. Paul
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