[gdm-list] GDM2 2.13.0.2 (unstable), the "Config Overhaul" release

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

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

The 2.13.0.2 release is an unstable release of GDM2
which has further improvements to the way it manages
configuration data.  It also has build fixes that were
causing issues for BSD users with the previous GDM
unstable release.

Changes:

2.13.0.2 stuff:

- Further redesign of configuration parsing logic.
  Now all GDM slaves (except gdmsetup) use the
  GET_CONFIG socket command to access configuration
  data.  This means all configuration parsing is now
  handled in one place, the daemon.  Improvements
  to the daemon configuration parsing so it
  correctly parses and validates all parameters used
  by the slave programs.  Also fix some compile
  issues that were causing problems with certain
  configurations.  (Brian Cameron)

- Improved the GET_CONFIG command so that you don't
  have to include the default value (you can use
  "greeter/IncludeAll" instead of having to use
  "greeter/IncludeAll=false".   Also you can
  access keys that contain translatable strings
  (e.g. "greeter/Welcome[cs]") via the GET_CONFIG
  command.  (Brian Cameron)

- Changes to peeking VT freeness in 2.13.0.1 broke
  virtual terminal support on BSD.  This release
  corrects this problem.  (Brian Cameron)

- Correct Linux get VT logic so it returns the
  correct VT.  (Frederic Crozat)

- Now gdmlogin always uses GDK_RGB_DITHER_MAX
  when painting the background to ensure a nice
  background regardless of X configuration
  (e.g. X in 16bpp mode).  (Frederic Crozat)

- Now check for Xserver in prefix /usr.
  (J\303\274rg Billeter)

- Fix configure for Darwin. (dmacks netspace org)

- Fix compiler warnings. (Frederic Crozat,
  dmacks netspace org, Brian Cameron)

- Ensure gnome.desktop and default.desktop have
  644 perms.  (Andrew Benton)

- Translation updates (Takeshi AIHANA,
  \305\275ygimantas Beru\304\215ka, Theppitak
  Karoonboonyanan, Priit Laes, Ignacio Casal
  Quinteiro, Alexander Shopov, Francisco Javier F.
  Serrador, Marcel Telka, Funda Wang, Adam Weinberger)

Note:  GDM2 was originally written by Martin K. Petersen <mkp mkp net>.
Much work has been done on GDM2 by George Lebl, and Brian Cameron
currently shares maintainership duties with the Queen of England.

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

#ifndef GDM_DISABLE_DEPRECATED
Note3:  Note3 has been depracated ...
#endif /* GDM_DISABLE_DEPRECATED */

Downloading:
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Webpage: http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.8/

No RPM this time around BTW.  Have fun.  A spec file is included though,
so you can try:

  rpmbuild -ta gdm-whatever.tar.gz

Have fun,

Brian