Re: language chooser in GDM.. auto-reload gdm and language flags?

[Joao Clemente <jpcl rnl ist utl pt>]

Thanks Chookij
I'm reading the thread right now and I think I can give it a try during 
the next few weeks to get things finished... altough it seemed you had 
most of the job done.

I think anyway that I want to solve the problem in a simpler way than 
what you were trying to, or at least I disagree with the problems you're 
facing in the last messages of the thread:
 - user will not get gdm UI changed after writing username. It makes no 
sense to me. If user was able to see where to put username into, it is 
smart enough to know where to put the password.
 - gdm should not try to solve locale charset problems. The locale 
AFAIK will be the always the same if the same keyboard is used, no 
matter wich language the user wants to see in the messages. It should be 
dealt in a completely different level, maybe at X, if I'm thinking right.

I could not, however, see the attached files you send to bugzilla, wich
I would like to see to get the feeling of your progress, and I am not 
sure where to get either the source code for the "unmodified" gdm or 
your modified version... or a patch.
Could you point me to the files so that I get a faster start with this?

Giiz... now that I think of this, it has been 2 years since I last wrote 
some C code... hmmmm... time to get all this rust from my fingers :-)

Joao Clemente

Chookij Vanatham wrote:
> There is the bugzilla filed for the feature (a). Bugzilla id: 108820.
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108820
>
> May be if you could try to finish it... ;-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chookij V.
>
>
> > I was very glad to see a way to choose a language in GDM (I was using 
> > kdm up till now) as my system has users with different language 
> > preferences...
> >
> > I wonder if it would be simple to add two features to gdm language 
> > choosing ability...
> >
> > a) To reload gdm after after a language choice has been taken:
> >  - Users would see gdm already in the wanted language and follow the 
> > login procedure with that language...
> > This seem to be (theoretically) simple, as I have the feeling that gdm 
> > reloads when we're configuring it's looks (like standart vs grafical 
> > chooser). So, if there is already implemented a way to reload gdm...
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