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Bug#1002654: reportbug: Please report Desktop Environment which a user has logged in



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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