I am glad that Bug #435930 has been addressed, but I agree with Julian
that this is still a significant design flaw. Imagine if Microsoft Word
displayed the message on launch, "Warning: changes to this document will
be lost unless you save it to file before closing Word", and then gave
absolutely
On 2014-10-07 16:02, Julian Foad wrote:
> The attitude that users who don't pay attention will always run into
> trouble is ...
It's not an attitude, it's reality. With that said, I agree that the
design should be forgiving, but it will never be perfect.
> I'd be glad to help with blueprinting,
Hi Gunnar.
There are two issues in play. The real issue here is that Ubuntu gives
users a session that looks and feels pretty much like a regular session,
but then it deletes the user's data without adequate warning. That's a
serious design flaw. That bug deserves its own bug report, with serious
Well, users who don't pay attention will always run into trouble
irrespective of the desktop design.
lightdm, and with that the guest session feature, is included in several
distributions, for example Ubuntu with Unity, Xubuntu, Lubuntu and
Kubuntu, and I think they may use different software for
** Summary changed:
- loggin out from guest session should notify that data will be cleared
+ logging out of guest session should notify that data will be cleared
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