Can design please comment on the wording of the warning. As proposed, it
is a warning dialog like this:
Title: 'Warning: Data will be deleted'
Content: 'Please be aware that this is a "guest session". It means that your
data will be automatically deleted when you log out, and possible altered
settings will be reset.'
Optional content: 'There is an exception: Files that you save in the folder
/var/guest-data will be preserved.'
The optional content is not shown on a default install (it requires a
sysadmin to create /var/guest-data).
** Also affects: ayatana-design
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** No longer affects: gdm-guest-session (Ubuntu)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/435930
Title:
Guest session does not warn about temporary nature of files
Status in Ayatana Design:
New
Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
Confirmed
Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
New
Bug description:
Hi all,
this is not a bug per se, rather a request for a feature. One of the
users I support has allowed someone to use his desktop using the
"Guest Session", not realising that files saved during this session do
not persist after logout. The person in question proceeded to do a
good few hours work on the machine, saving files to the Guest Session
desktop. They were of course extremely dismayed when they logged in
again, only to find that their work has disappeared.
I think it would be a nice feature if, upon logging into the Guest
Session, a splash screen appeared telling the user in no uncertain
terms that any files they saved during the session would not persist
after they logged out. I am a linux sysadmin and I was unaware of
this property of the Guest Session and had to search online for an
explanation for the behavior which, I'm sure you agree, is not ideal.
Thanks in advance,
Dan T.
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