Proposed change to C/Shell-Guest-Session.page

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
I like the guest feature too.  Even though i don't directly use it i
do show it off, without dwelling on it for long, when showing off how
much better Ubuntu is than certain other OSes.  Even though i don't
see the point of switching it off i defend the ability to do so.  Part
of the reason i prefer Gnu&Linux is that it is so highly configurable.

I hadn't realised that the description of how to turn it off was on
the same page that described what it was about and i hadn't realised
that it kinda took over the page.  I thought it was on it's own page
or a page such as "Top 10 Things to do after installing Ubuntu" which
often have 1 or 2 useful things.  Usually such "Top 10" pages appear
as articles in magazines and such as a way of "raising the profile" of
Ubuntu or as cheap (but more useful) advertising.

So i agree that if it stays where it was then it probably needs to be
summarised more.  If it does get moved then maybe leave a link to it
on the page about the Guest Session?
Regards from
Tom :)





On 7 January 2014 00:14, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 2014-01-06 17:02, Richard Roberts wrote:
>> Hello! Sorry it's a bit of a 'feet first' approach, but I noted
>> LP1076740 was still outstanding for 12.04 (and I believe also applies to
>> 13.10) (lack of documentation for removing guest option).
>>
>> I attach a diff for the proposed change, which is basically adding the
>> instructions linked from that bug, modified for 13.10.
>
> Thanks for the diff, Richard! It applied fine. ;-)
>
> I'd better confess right away that guest session is a pet feature of
> mine, and that I wrote that page.
>
> With that said, I agree that Shell-Guest-Session.page should explain how
> the guest session feature can be disabled. However, the text you
> proposed is far too long IMO. With your proposal, the section about
> disabling guest session would be larger than the description on what it
> is and how you launch it.
>
> Instead I wrote a more concise section and added it to a pending merge
> proposal:
>
> https://code.launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/ubuntu-docs/addremove/+merge/200074
>
> Hope you think it's good enough.
>
> Thanks again!
>
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