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[Arnau Vàzquez <arnauvp@xxxxxxxx>]

My mother hit this bug this week when a cousin came home for an afternoon of work and the next day... it was all gone!
They called me and I thought: it makes sense, Mac OS guest session also deletes everything, maybe they didn't read the warning... but let me check. WHAT? No warning anywhere. Hard to defend a design decision like this...

Then I thought: maybe it's because their system is using 11.10, for sure
it must be resolved now and I can defend my beloved Ubuntu. Silly me!
This bug, which is probably ridiculously easy to solve (**2 dialog
boxes**), is opened since 2009, and not only that... in Launchpad it is
considered a "nice to have". Left me speechless.

I've been using Ubuntu since 5.04 and I love how it has progressed, it's
so polished now and so friendly *on the surface* for even the most
unexperienced users [ok there's the Unity love/hate thing]. I thought it
had managed to merge the best of the Open Source philosophy  with a
strong user-oriented product vision, and that it would only be a matter
of time that people would see this, maybe with Ubuntu running on their
phones, same as the iPhone brought people to OSX. But I was wrong,
otherwise this would be a critical-level bug and no new distro would
ship without it fixed.

Now you can say: why don't you fix it yourself, this is how OpenSource works, etc, etc. But please note:
1) AFAIK some people are paid to work on Ubuntu,
2)  gunnarhj **already solved this bug** in his Forums thread as a comment **from 2010** points out. All it takes is a Product Owner / UX manager to say: bring it in. But I guess that figure doesn't exist (I thought it was Mark S.) and so the user experience for people who don't know what 'sudo' is suffers and Ubuntu/Linux remains a niche OS for the geeks.

Best wishes,
Arnau

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/435930

Title:
  Guest session does not warn about temporary nature of files

Status in “gdm-guest-session” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
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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