Re: New module proposal: LightDM

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 13:02 +0200, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> Il giorno Fri, 13/05/2011 alle 21.17 +0200, Alexander Larsson ha
> scritto:
> > On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 14:59 +0200, Robert Ancell wrote:
> > > I'm proposing LightDM [1] as a replacement for GDM.  I started the
> > > proposal for this in GNOME 3.0 [2] but due to the young age of the
> > > project I thought it better to wait until 3.2 before making a full
> > > proposal.  This is it.  I apologise this has been done after the
> > > proposal period.
> > > 
> > > Why replace GDM?
> > 
> > Personally I don't see why the greeter is all that important. Most
> > system these days are single-user setups like laptops. 
> 
> I'm not sure I can agree with this starting point. If so we should also
> remove the "Accounts" panel from system setting, or at least the ability
> to manage other accounts.

There are certainly setups that can use a multi account system, and I'm
not saing we should not allow that. But in the very many situations it
isn't needed i don't understand why it has to be even visible.

> However I agree with the idea of a "password only" request when you are
> the unique user, but I feel this can resolved at greeter level,
> something like
> 
> if (single_user) then {
>   activate_user (username);
>   prompt_password();
> }

Shy should we use the greeter to unlock the screen the first time, but
then if you e.g. timeout during a coffe break you'll unlock the second
time with a completely different UI?