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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2013-01-11 12:42, Arnau Vàzquez wrote:
> All it takes is a Product Owner / UX manager to say: bring it in.

Hmm.. The author and maintainer of lightdm, Robert Ancell, already did
that in a sense when blessing this bug by setting the status of the gdm-
guest-session task to "Triaged". Hence doing so for the lightdm task.

I do agree that this is an annoying design flaw, and I plan to 'convert'
my code in the tutorial (which now resides at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CustomizeGuestSession) to a patch.
Once merged it would at least give us a warning at startup.

** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Triaged

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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:
  Triaged
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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