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Bug#1002654: marked as done (reportbug: Please report Desktop Environment which a user has logged in)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #1002654,
regarding reportbug: Please report Desktop Environment which a user has logged in
to be marked as done.

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Package: reportbug
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainers,

reportbug(1) supplies system information when generating a bug template.

> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: buster/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
> LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled

I believe it would be desirable to have a line about desktop environment
used by a reporter. The tool can identify DE via the XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
environment variable mentioned in Desktop Entry Specification[1].
pam_systemd(8) sets the XDG_SESSION_TYPE, the XDG_SESSION_CLASS, and the
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP environment variables; they can be taken into
account as well. The legacy and non-standardized DESKTOP_SESSION
environment variable could also be read.

 [1]: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html

Please consider to include this information to bug reports to help
maintainers investigate issues in GUI applications. It could looks like

> DE: MATE

or

> DE: XFCE

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> I can judge from my point of view only. There are some bugs in the
> telegram-desktop package where this information would be useful.

i think that you'd be better served by adding a bug-script to
telegram-desktop to collect the information you need to properly debug
issues with that package.

While there's could potentially be some value in adding the DE
information on all bugs, the bar needed is substantially higher than
what demonstrated here Given there is already support in reportbug to
support telegram-desktop needs, i'm going to close this ticket; we can
re-evaluate at a later time if further interest is shown.

Thanks,
-- 
Sandro "morph" Tosi
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Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi
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