Comment 40 for bug 445123

Jerone Young wrote on 2010-03-26:
"@Rick
This bug can not wait for 10.10 & needs to be fixed in 10.04 for many corporate users. It looks like the fix came in extremely quickly. So why now put this in the bug."

I completely agree.

First of all it was a really bad choice to put the new GDM in Ubuntu 9.10 when there wasn't even a single GUI to configure it. Ubuntu 9.04 and earlier had a great GUI to change everthing and I always completely customized my GDM. Then they put the new GDM in Ubuntu 9.10 and there was nothing to configure. At the time Ubuntu 9.10 was released the only option was to let a user automatically logon. By default Ubuntu 9.10 shows an insecure list of user names and there isn't even a GUI to disable it.

Now Ubuntu 10.04 (which is an LTS) is almost finished and they still want to release it with a GDM that can't be configured. That's really an epic fail. The new GDM has been put into Ubuntu way to early. They had to wait untill a GUI was released which was of the same quality as the GUI for the old GDM.

I'm still running Ubuntu 9.04 on all of my systems. The new GDM is the reason I've never upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10. I don't want my systems to display my logon name.

Waiting till the release of Ubuntu 10.10? Only for a simple checkbox to disable the face browser? Really, that's completely ridiculous! Visual freeze? So what? This is just a simple checkbox which is really easy to test. Does it work? Great. Than just put it in Ubuntu! Why should we wait for 7 months only to have one little checkbox?

The great difference between feature releases and fix releases is ridiculous anyway. Canonical thinks everything is a new feature. For example: With the release of Ubuntu 9.04 they thought showing the number of updates was not user friendly. How can they ever think showing the number of updates is less user friendly than NOT showing the number of updates??? Anyway, they decided to remove the number of available updates from the update manager in Ubuntu 9.04. Of course people where complaining. They wanted to see the number of updates. This was really easy to patch, but for Canonical this was a NEW feature, so the users had to wait for Ubuntu 9.10 while Ubunti 9.04 was just released. WTF??? Why should we wait for 6 months and then upgrade a whole operating system just to get an old feature back??? That's ridiculous! It's just a simple text string showing the number of updates. It's so easy to test if it works or doesn't work. Does it work? Than just push the update to your users. Why do they have to wait for 6 months till a new release of Ubuntu is released?

Canonical makes me sick with their "No, this is a new feature, so you'll have to wait for Ubuntu version [current + 1]."