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The "Slide up" is gone in next LTS due in a few days. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/10/ubuntu-20-04-release-features https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/10/ubu

The "Slide up" is gone in next LTS due in a few days. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/10/ubuntu-20-04-release-features https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/10/ubuntu-20-04-release-fea...

robocat 6y ago
About half way through article: “The new lock screen is easier to use, no longer requiting you to ‘slide up’ to reveal the password field (which now sits atop a blurred version of your desktop wallpaper):” Great! That UI was horrific. Hitting a key like spacebar didn’t unlock. Aside: I completely broke the Ubuntu login screen yesterday. I did `apt remove evolution*`. Unfortunately the login screen depends on evolution-data-server, so I couldn’t login from lock screen, and after reboot it dropped me to TTY!! Gnome is just getting crazy - it would be like Windows login depending on MS Outlook! Gnome is a big ball of interdependencies, becoming more like Windows. I get it, but I don’t like it. Edit: FYI: fixed in TTY3 (ctrl-alt-F3) by `apt install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop` from memory.
- ahsima1 6y ago
  apt automatically removing dependencies by default is such a trap, I much prefer pacman's behaviour of refusing to remove package that breaks dependecies unless explicitly told to do so.
  - necovek 6y ago
    apt will not automatically remove dependencies either. I suspect the OP already had ubuntu-desktop package removed for some other reason, and there was no direct dependency on evolution-data-server for gdm: it will only remove dependencies which no other still-installed package depends on. That might still mean a packaging bug (but at least on 18.04, attempting to remove evolution-data-server prompts me how it's going to remove gdm3 too — sure, it's short and easily missed; attempting to remove evolution does not attempt to remove evolution-data-server since a bunch of other stuff depends on it like gnome-calendar too). In any case, apt will prompt you about all the packages you are about to remove (unless you pass "-y(es)" to it).
CameronNemo 6y ago
And it is a GNOME-ism, Ubuntu went out of their way to modify it.

The "Slide up" is gone in next LTS due in a few days. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/10/ubuntu-20-04-release-features https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/10/ubuntu-20-04-release-fea...

robocat 6y ago

About half way through article: “The new lock screen is easier to use, no longer requiting you to ‘slide up’ to reveal the password field (which now sits atop a blurred version of your desktop wallpaper):” Great! That UI was horrific. Hitting a key like spacebar didn’t unlock. Aside: I completely broke the Ubuntu login screen yesterday. I did `apt remove evolution*`. Unfortunately the login screen depends on evolution-data-server, so I couldn’t login from lock screen, and after reboot it dropped me to TTY!! Gnome is just getting crazy - it would be like Windows login depending on MS Outlook! Gnome is a big ball of interdependencies, becoming more like Windows. I get it, but I don’t like it. Edit: FYI: fixed in TTY3 (ctrl-alt-F3) by `apt install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop` from memory.

ahsima1 6y ago
apt automatically removing dependencies by default is such a trap, I much prefer pacman's behaviour of refusing to remove package that breaks dependecies unless explicitly told to do so.
- necovek 6y ago
  apt will not automatically remove dependencies either. I suspect the OP already had ubuntu-desktop package removed for some other reason, and there was no direct dependency on evolution-data-server for gdm: it will only remove dependencies which no other still-installed package depends on. That might still mean a packaging bug (but at least on 18.04, attempting to remove evolution-data-server prompts me how it's going to remove gdm3 too — sure, it's short and easily missed; attempting to remove evolution does not attempt to remove evolution-data-server since a bunch of other stuff depends on it like gnome-calendar too). In any case, apt will prompt you about all the packages you are about to remove (unless you pass "-y(es)" to it).

CameronNemo 6y ago

And it is a GNOME-ism, Ubuntu went out of their way to modify it.