Re: Fast User Switch Applet development

["Thomas Thurman" <thomas thurman org uk>]

On 12/02/07, Calvin Gaisford <cgaisford novell com> wrote:
> Has there been any discussion on making the Fusa functionality available
> in other components?  I've been playing around with the code and have
> created a library and dialog that borrows heavily from the fusa code
> base.  I'd hate to duplicate this code all over the place and would like
> to propose an addition that would allow other desktop components to
> display a switch user UI.
>
> There are a bunch of ways this could be done (small application,
> library, dbus interfaces into fusa, maybe all three?) but I'd like to
> start a discussion about it.

What would a dbus interface to fusa do that an interface to gdm
wouldn't? After all, fusa is nothing but a bunch of code to do applet
stuff and a bunch of code to talk to gdm. Very recently, gdm itself
has added a dbus interface, and I'm working on making fusa use that.
So what you want is probably to talk to gdm directly.

peace

Thomas