Dan:
Anybody want to create a patch for the docs/C/gdm.xml file to include the example? I think the manual would be easier to understand if it provided more clear examples like this.FWIW, it would probably be pretty simple to take the old gdmsetup code and revamp it to just operate on gconf instead of the configuration files.
I would love to see any proposal. The new GDM does not use a /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf file, but does use the /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf file for some configuration options. The code for interacting with the configuration files would therefore likely need to be a bit more complicated. The new GDM also does not support many of the configuration options that used to be supported. So there would be some work reworking the user interface so it makes sense. You are right, not a huge amount of work, but not a completely trivial one either. Probably should involve the usability team to figure out how the new UI should look. Brian