ANNOUNCE: GDM 2.4.1.2, the "War sucks" release

[George <jirka 5z com>]

WARSUCKSBAD

http://nowaroniraq.org/
http://www.antiwar.com/

(If you have no clue what gdm is, skip a few paragraphs down first)

Pretty much just updated translations and fixed one bug in the chooser.
So you now actually get connected to the right host if you touched the
keyboard, or that is, you can actually also connect using your keyboard
only.

And now for the standard part of the release announcement:

GDM is the GNOME Display Manager, it is the little proggie that runs in the
background, runs your X sessions, presents you with a login box and then
tells you to piss off because you forgot your password.  It does pretty much
everything that you would want to use xdm for, but doesn't involve as much
crack.  It doesn't use any code from xdm, and has a more paranoid and safer
design overall.  It also includes many features over xdm, the biggest one of
which is that it is more user friendly, even if your X setup is failing.  The
goal is that users should never, ever have to use the command line to
customize or troubleshoot gdm.  It of course supports xdmcp, and in fact
extends xdmcp a little bit in places where I thought xdm was lacking (but is
still compatible with xdm's xdmcp).

News:
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Highlights of 2.4.1.2:

- The chooser works with keyboard and you don't connect to a different
  host if you try to use the keyboard

- intltool*.in files aren't killed on distclean

- Translation updates (Pauli Virtanen, Lauri Nurmi, Dmitry G. Mastrukov,
  Russian team, Christian Rose, Sanlig Badral, Christian Neumair,
  Pablo Saratxaga, Yuriy Syrota, Fatih Demir, Gorkem, Christian Meyer,
  Abel Cheung, Gustavo Noronha Silva)

Note:  GDM2 was originally written by Martin K. Petersen <mkp mkp net>, and
has for a while now been maintained by the Queen of England.  She is usually
not responsive to bug reports or feature requests.  You can try to send them
to me however.

Note2:  If installing from the tarball do note that make install overwrites
most of the setup files, all except gdm.conf and gnomerc.  It will however
save backups with the .orig extension first.

Note3:  Distributors, packagers.  Please, PLEASE use the standard Gnome
script when setting things up as gnome, or at least equivalently working
scripts.  It should never be OK to just exec gnome-session, that is
considered bad form.  The script needs to read (if available) the ~/.gnomerc
and otherwise read the <sysconfdir>/gdm/gnomerc file.  This allows users and
administrators to setup custom startup for gnome.

Downloading:
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http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.4/
ftp://ftp.5z.com/pub/gdm/

Sorry no RPMS.  There is a spec file included in the tarball and it may or may
not work (it should, and it did some time ago but I haven't tried it lately).

Have fun,

George

PS:  War sucks

-- 
George <jirka 5z com>
   For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public
   relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
                       -- Richard P. Feynman