Public bug reported:
GNOME Initial Setup offers two modes, existing user and new user mode.
Pop!_OS and Fedora (new in next months' Fedora 28 release) use the new
user mode. The new user mode runs full screen in GDM when there are no
non-system users on the computer. It adds two additional pages: a user
name page and a password page.
In my testing at the end of the wizard, it logged me in (without needing
to pick my name and enter my password yet again) and loaded the GNOME
Getting Started help.
I am attaching a small patch to apply against gnome-initial-setup
3.28.0-2ubuntu1 that uses the new Ubuntu version of gnome-initial-setup
instead of the GNOME version in the new user mode.
I am not proposing that Ubuntu switch to new user mode by default in
18.04. It's an interesting option that could be useful to some OEMs as
an alternative to ubiquity's OEM mode.
I am attaching screenshots so you can get an idea of how this works
without needing to go through the effort of trying it out.
Try It Out
==========
(on a virtual machine or where you have backed up all your home directories!)
- Start Ubuntu 18.04 into recovery mode. (Hold Shift when starting and select
the option in grub).
- Select clean. (This will run apt autoremove, but more importantly, it will
mount / read-write).
- Select root. Press enter to reach the command prompt
- Run. (Replace 'jeremy' with your username. Repeat for every user that would
show up in gdm's login window).
sudo deluser --remove-home jeremy
exit
- Select resume.
This should now start the New User mode.
Issues
======
1. The theme is using Adwaita instead of Ambiance
2. My patch feels a bit of a hack since it also forces other flavors to
use the Ubuntu version for gnome-initial-setup and wouldn't be
acceptable as is upstream. But "vanilla GNOME" doesn't make an ISO and
Pop!_OS uses a custom pop-gnome-initial-setup anyway.
3. The Privacy link doesn't work. We should switch it to using a webkit-
powered popup like upstream does for their privacy link.
4. We need to hide the "Open Software now" link in new user mode. It
actually does work and opens the Software app which is not a good idea
here.
** Affects: gnome-initial-setup (Ubuntu)
Importance: Wishlist
Status: New
** Tags: bionic
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Offer Ubuntu customizations in new user mode too
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