Hi George,
I have been working on enhancement of "Language" selection in gdm2
(bugzilla id: 108820) and I have got some snapshots of UI
change. I'd like to ask help to review the UI change and any feedback
would be really appreciated to get this work done.
Here are the reasons of UI change.
1) Once gdm2 starts up, there is NO-WAY to switch its greeter GUIs
to any other languages without restarting gdm2 with the new
languages/locales (before users loggining to the system).
2) "Language" menu at greeter is using for the case when users want
to have their own sessions running in different languages(locales)
other than the language (locales) specified in ~/.dmrc user
configuration file and also, greeter doesn't restart/refresh GUI
to be displayed in that particular language on the fly.
Ex: ~/.dmrc
[Desktop]
Session=gnome.desktop
Language=ja_JP.SJIS
In CDE, dtlogin/dtgreeter has the same feature but, dtgreeter
is also restarted/refreshed on the fly when users select new
language from "language" menu, even the language selected is
actually using for users's own session after users's logging-in.
I'd like to point out that this behavior in dtlogin/dtgreeter is
causing the demand to have gdm greeter to restart greeter's GUI
on the fly after selecting new language. The point is that,
actually, there are two different things which can be applied
with "language".
1) Language applying to greeter (gdmlogin, gdmgreeter)
2) Language applying to users' session
Another word is that "Language" menu GUI is a little bit easier
to confuse users' behavior between greeter's GUI and users'
session GUI.
Here are the list of UI change (feature changed/added).
1) Language selection for log-in screen (greeter) and users's session
is seperated at the "Language" menu which will have 2 options,
"Greeter Language" and "Users' session Language".
Attached snapshots:
o gdmgreeter_lang_stock_button_action.jpeg.gz
When "Language" stock button clicked, there will be the
pop-up window for users to select if language is for greeter
or for user's session.
2) "Greeter Language" will restart log-in screen in new language
selected.
Attached snapshots:
o gdmlogin_greeter_lang.jpeg.gz
When selected, gdmlogin will be restarted to the new language
selected. There are no "Last" and "System Default" entries.
o gdmgreeter_lang.jpeg.gz
If user chooses language for greeter, language selection window
will be pop-uped. There are no "Last" and "System Default"
entries. After new language selected and "Ok" button clicked,
gdmgreeter will be restarted with new language.
3) "Users' session Language" will have the new extra pop-up sub-menu
for experience users to select their preference of "character set"
they want for their session, otherwise, gdm2 will assign the
default character set associated with language users select for
their session.
Attached snapshots:
o gdmlogin_usr_sess_lang.jpeg.gz
When selected, gdmlogin will use the language selected for
user's session. gdmlogin won't be restarted.
There are "Last" and "System Default" entries.
o gdmlogin_usr_sess_charset.jpeg.gz
User can choose "character set @ modifier" for particurlar
language selected for user's session, otherwise "character
set @ modifier" will be default (according to
/etc/X11/gdm/locale.alias)
o gdmgreeter_usr_sess_lang.jpeg.gz
If user choose language for user's session, language
selection window will be pop-uped. There are "Last" and
"System Deafult" entries. There is new stock button named
"Information" at the dialog. When "Information" stock button
clicked, users can change "character set @ modifier" of
language selected for user's session.
o gdmgreeter_usr_sess_charset.jpeg.gz
Users can choose "character set @ modifier" for language
used within session.
4) A new tab called "Session Languages" tab is for customizing the
default detail information of each language for users's session
by super-user through the gdmsetup tool.
Attached snapshots:
o gdmsetup_lang_tab.jpeg.gz
This new session language tab is used to change the default
"character set @ modifier" for any languages which will be used
as the default for users' session if users don't activate
"Information" stock button.
Please let me know any suggestion. In the next week or so, I'll
give you the patch.
PS:
snapshot.tar.gz contains 8 jpeg files.
a ./gdmgreeter_lang.jpeg 313K
a ./gdmgreeter_lang_stock_button_action.jpeg 282K
a ./gdmgreeter_usr_sess_charset.jpeg 311K
a ./gdmgreeter_usr_sess_lang.jpeg 308K
a ./gdmlogin_greeter_lang.jpeg 171K
a ./gdmlogin_usr_sess_charset.jpeg 69K
a ./gdmlogin_usr_sess_lang.jpeg 208K
a ./gdmsetup_lang_tab.jpeg 87K
Thanks,
Chookij V.
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