Comment 65 for bug 408417
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| Keith Edwin Smith (keith-ksmith) wrote Re: No option to log in remotely via XDMCP | #65 |
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Steve,
First of all, thank you for all of your work with Debian and Ubuntu. Without people like you there would be no alternatives.
"Maintenance" and "Support" are always important, and the gnome group is notorious for goofing up functionality and regression in their releases. None the less, XDMCP is kind of like a *CORE* functionality of the X system, available in the earliest releases, and not that complex. Gnome/GDM's decision to toss it out was stupid, like building a fancy house in Phoenix (115 yesterday) without putting in an Air Conditioner. Yea, it's just fine in January, but come July . . .
Ubuntu had a working GDM in prior LTS releases. LTS releases IMHO should be highly functional, and fully regression tested. If a package breaks regression that badly it simply should not be included. "Maintenance" not withstanding, at the moment in Phoenix, I'd rather have an Old Clunky A/C than none at all. In Ubuntu I'd rather have an un-maintained GDM that does what it used to, than a "Maintained" version that does not. "It's not our fault..." doesn't get it because the package maintainers at Ubuntu _chose_ to put a broken gdm in play in a Long Term Support release, that makes it impossible to upgrade from an 8.04 X-windows Terminal Server, without replacing core components manually. Yuk.
This problem is fairly typical. Most developers don't actually use the products they develop so they don't notice when they goof up something people use. Problem is, now we have to hold our breath to see if:
1. The GDM developers are going to fix the product
2. Ubuntu will actually implement the upgrade in the 10.04 LTS release!
I'm sure eventually this will get resolved. In the mean time we'll go down to Home Depot and grab a window A/C for the summer eh? :). It's just the alternative LM's are so frakking ugly. . .