Re: Status of GDM for GNOME 2.22



On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 12:26 -0500, William Jon McCann wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the update.  Given the gvfs thread, I had expected something
on d-d-l.

> 
> 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.

I still have the FreeBSD/VT regression bug open (with an attached
patch).  While we're working around it locally, it would be great if
that regression from 2.20 could also be addressed.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498333

This VT problem has also been recently raised on Linux in
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511168 .  I'd be happy to work
with you on this patch as I really feel this is important to fix in
2.22.

Our test users have been commenting that GDM is working quite well now
on FreeBSD with one other exception (patched locally),
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510469 .

Joe

-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome FreeBSD org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome

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