On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 09:39, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 01:29:08PM +0000, Steven Mackay wrote: > > Why doesn't someone add a "Make this my default" checkbox to the GDM > > session chooser? > > This would mean we could change our default desktop from the login screen > > and get rid of the Switchdesk utility altogether. > > And add this to KDM as well, of course. > > Older versions of GDM asked you if you wanted to switch your session > permanently. This seems to be gone now, and it tells you to run switchdesk > -- someone seems to have made the opposite decision, that this functionality > doesn't belong in GDM. > We were just trying to keep switchdesk working (I think this is a Red Hat patch to gdm), there was some elaborate rationale. There seemed to be some recent sentiment to just delete switchdesk and use the upstream gdm method. Havoc
