Bug 22529

Summary:	The "gnome-session-properties" utility has completely disappeared from the GNOME distribs.
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Michel AUTEM <michel.autem>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	GNOME maintainers <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11, olav
Version:	6	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Michel AUTEM 2018-02-05 22:53:50 CET

Description of problem:
This is not a "bug" but a serious functional regression . This tool was extremely useful to manage the start-up applications and commands .
It seems to have been replaced by the "Start-up applications" index in the "Advanced Settings" tool but this one is almost not functional .


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Mageia 6 64 bit + Gnome 3.24.2

Marja Van Waes 2018-02-07 11:12:17 CET

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => gnome

Comment 1 Olav Vitters 2018-02-07 22:46:33 CET

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708923

Unclear what you're asking for.

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => olav

Comment 2 Michel AUTEM 2018-02-08 16:40:51 CET

Hi Olav,

I just regret the disappearance of The "gnome-session-properties" utility in the last Mageai/GNOME distributions because it was for me a VERY useful and flexible little tool, and its "replacing" by the "Start-up applications" index in the "gnome-tweak-tool" ("Advances settings") is functionally ridiculous .

From a general point of view (I know, it's not the topic of this forum ..), everything in GNOME seems to me more and more "strange", rigid and difficult to customize, I'm changing for Xfce ..

Comment 3 Olav Vitters 2018-02-08 19:43:09 CET

It's again not clear what you're after. I understand the old tool was useful, the new method doesn't work. Could you please explain what doesn't work? What's missing?

Comment 4 Michel AUTEM 2018-02-08 23:26:54 CET

The "Advance Settings" tool enables only to select programs in the list of the applications installed in your PC. 

"Gnome-session-property" enabled to launch applications but also to easily create start-up commands, without needing to open a terminal and files. You had no questions to ask yourselves nor any information to look for. Now, when you wish the same result, you have to come back into a terminal and to create command files by hand, somewhere (where in fact ?) in the labyrinthiform tree structure of Linux . Coming back from the visual mode to the text mode is a puzzling functional regression ..

Comment 5 Olav Vitters 2018-02-13 21:37:00 CET

So it's just that you cannot add custom commands right? Do you still have a screenshot of the previous functionality?

Comment 6 Michel AUTEM 2018-02-15 11:21:36 CET

(In reply to Olav Vitters from comment #5)
> So it's just that you cannot add custom commands right? Do you still have a
> screenshot of the previous functionality?

No, I have not Gnome 5 installed anymore in my PC . In "Gnome-session-property" it was easy to type direcly any command line to be launched with Gnome : no terminal nor text file to open by hand .

Comment 7 Michel AUTEM 2019-08-25 23:27:16 CEST

I don't use GNOME anymore, I did prefer Xfce. I close this ticket.

Resolution: (none) => OLD
Status: NEW => RESOLVED