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Rohan Dhruva rohandhruva at gmail.com
Fri Apr 11 18:39:39 UTC 2014


I see the second bug too.


On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Nikola Šnele <n.schnelle at gmail.com> wrote:

> After latest updates I found two bugs:
>
> 1) Grub shows "Ubuntu" and not "Kubuntu" anymore.
>
> 2) Weird/different icon for software updates in system tray. It doesn't go
> away even if there are no updates available:
> http://www.dodaj.rs/?1z/OV/1LUVGqA1/snapshot28.png
>
> You can close it on right mouse click>close but that action disables "Show
> notifications for available updates" in Muon update manager.
> http://www.dodaj.rs/?2I/gC/34FQcvjx/snapshot29.png
>
> This is probably bug in latest muon update.
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> Harald Sitter wrote:
>> > As I said in the bug report, that is quite simply an invalid config.
>>
>> I don't dispute that. It is just a config left over when I had lightdm
>> installed with the Lubuntu packages which I later removed (and purged).
>>
>> > If you were to remove lightdm-kde-greeter you'd end up with an equally
>> > broken config if the greeter-session was set to lightdm-kde-greeter.
>>
>> That's true, but originally I didn't create the problem intentionally
>> but I installed and later removed lightdm which is a valid procedure
>> IMHO. OTOH lightdm-kde-greeter was even installed by the upgrader, so in
>> reality lightdm-kde-greeter would not be missing after the upgrade.
>>
>> > Removing the config doesn't really solve that, at best that's a
>> > debian packaging standard violating workaround.
>> > What would need to happen is that lightdm needs to grow fallback logic
>> > for when the configured greeter cannot be loaded so that it would
>> > then continue trying to load an arbitrary greeter that works and
>> > continues using that as default.
>> >
>> > At any rate though this is something that has to be addressed by
>> > lightdm at large, it is neither Kubuntu specific, nor does it have any
>> > more impact on Kubuntu than on other flavors.
>>
>> Well, I mostly agree. However it may be a problem for other Kubuntu
>> users who also had lightdm additionally installed for some reason and
>> later removed it. Sure it is a lightdm fault but I think it is a Kubuntu
>> specific problem because the other Ubuntu flavours already have lightdm
>> installed (AFAIK). And the Kubuntu upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04 replaces
>> kdm with lightdm (I don't know which DM Kubuntu 13.10 uses). So this is
>> probably the last upgrade cycle anyway, where it can happen and
>> therefore I have no idea how important it really is. It is certainly not
>> a problem for the majority of Kubuntu users who have only Kubuntu
>> packages installed. So if you decide it isn't worth the time to do
>> anything about it, it is fine by me.
>>
>>
>> Nils
>>
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