Re: Status of GDM for GNOME 2.22

["William Jon McCann" <mccann jhu edu>]

Hi Joe,

2008/2/3 Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus freebsd org>:
> The status of gvfs for GNOME 2.22 was recently discussed, and it seems
> good progress is being made on this to reduce regressions, but I have
> seen no mention of the regressions introduced in GDM 2.21.  The move of
> GDM to D-BUS has completely broken fast-user-switch-applet, and
> gnome-panel no longer shows the shutdown/restart options in its menu.
> Given that development is winding down on GNOME 2.22, what is going to
> happen with these components and GDM?

We have been giving weekly updates to the release team and the gdm list:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2008-January/msg00117.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2008-January/msg00131.html

If you're interested you may join us on the gdm mailing list or #gdm on irc.

All regressions in fast user switching should be fixed this week.
First, we're making sure that the GDM greeter user selection works the
way we want it to.  Then we'll reuse much if not all of this code to
make the fast-user-switch-applet work again.  Some changes include
only showing the most frequent users in the user list instead of all
available users.

There is a patch for gnome-panel in bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511881

Three of us are working full time to make sure GDM is in decent shape
for 2.22.  Still, we'd appreciate help.

Thanks,
Jon