@Ted
No, no, it seems like I have failed to explain the reasons for my suggestion.

I want to give users options; I want to make it easy to customize the
guest sessions. What makes guest sessions different compared to other
kinds of sessions is that you can't make use of the normal tools within
a session for customizing the behavior. It has to be done before launch,
since no changes within a guest session are saved til next time you
start a guest session.

I already mentioned the tutorial I wrote. For the time being that
tutorial serves as a response to various user requests for customization
options; please see bug 667089. Some settings are better done on-the-fly
when launching a guest session, and that kind of customization (the
example in the tutorial is the session language) must be done before the
screen is locked.

I'm not against adding additional menu items when feasible; that's what
people currently are advised to do in the tutorial. But that requirement
makes customization more difficult, and with the suggested code change
in the new merge proposal, using the default "Guest Session" menu item
would work just fine.

During our IRC talk you mentioned interesting examples of how gdm-guest-
session may be used, that I hadn't thought of before. To make it easier
to launch guest sessions for such purposes, I made your suggestion for a
--no-lock option be implemented. Now I ask you to please make on-the-fly
customization easier by approving the new merge proposal.

Gunnar

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