Re: Question and project

[pedro noticioso <cucnews yahoo com>]

--- Guillaume Proux <gproux acesoliton com> wrote:
> pedro noticioso wrote:
> > hello Guillaume! it looks quite nice!
> 
> 
> Hi Pedro,
> 
> Thanks, I hope it will be accepted by George in the
> official CVS.
> This is really cool to be able to vary
> programmatically the appearance
> of the login screen.
> 
> 
> > Is it possible to add multi group support to gdm?
> my
> > idea is to asign a group of users to a different
> > /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions directory.
> 

After a little more thought, Ive seen that it would be
more appropiate to asign system user names to
different groups all within gdm.conf in sake of
simplicity

> Hum! You see, before you asked the question, I never
> had a look at how
> the code did to take care of sessions.
> I looked at it now and I find this part of gdm quite
> confusing.
> At the same time, I have difficulty understand how
> you would like
> to implement your new functionality. How do you take
> care of the case
> of a user being part of multiple groups for example?
> 

better manage session speciffic groups in gdm.conf

> The current problem i envision to implement your
> request is that
> you will need to have exactly the same session list
> for all users,
> as the session is chosen before login and not
> after...
> 
> All I could see would be a message saying that the
> session chosen is
> not available for this user and either:
> - go to the default Session directly or,
> - just invalidate the login until a correct Session
> is chosen (a info 
> box would have given him the list of acceptable
> choice for him)
>

rather disable session selection until an user name is
given, after that allow the user to choose another
serssion, thats ok because if there is no choice done,
there is always a default session predefined
 
> I have no estimaet how much it would take to
> implement that though,
> 
> > http://www.themedepot.org/showarea.php4?area=11
> 
> Actually it has been just a few weeks since I moved
> back to Linux after 
> 3 years of obscurantism... I did not know this new
> theme web site thanks 

you are welcome, dont forget to share a link if you
find a good one ;)

> for the link!
> 
> Guillaume
> 
> 
> 
>
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