Consider taking benefit from new post-login first screen experience on GNOME 43+
After login, GNOME 40 and newer opens the Activities Overview automatically. Tails 6.0 will include GNOME 43.
Here's how it looks like when auto-connecting to Internet via a network cable or a persistent Wi-Fi network:
Without Internet access, it would be the same, except without Tor Connection.
My short-term plan, as part of my work to port Tails on Bookworm, is to revert this change with the No overview at start-up GNOME Shell extension, because from a developer PoV, it's the cheapest thing to do: no need to adjust the test suite or anything else to this change.
But perhaps UX would like to take benefit from this change at some point, hence this issue to discuss what would be desirable and what we can do
For example, I like the new behavior because it introduces a number of GNOME desktop environment concepts & tools: Activities Overview, favorites, and workspaces. And generally, as a user, the first thing I want to do after I login is to start an app, which I can do in 1 click if it's a favorite (as a matter of fact, that's how I've been using my GNOME since v40 entered sid). But I can see how it's different in Tails, because the first thing I want to do there in probably either connect to Wi-Fi (if not persistent), or connect to Tor.