Re: [gdm-list] Re: gdm user and pass fields together

[Bob Doolittle <Robert Doolittle Sun COM>]

Bob Doolittle wrote:

> You gain a lot of flexibility this way, but you lose the ability to
> display all authentication prompts on a single screen at once.


Minor update to this comment, which might actually meet the need:

Initially the conversation function could display the username
prompt with a text-input field for entering the username.  When
the username is entered, the text-input field could change into
a label displaying the username.

On the next callback it could add the new prompt below it with
a text-input box.  In a sense this could look very similar to what
users see today, except that it would paint the prompts
incrementally, and you couldn't jump back and change one of
the previously entered responses - you'd need a "Start Over" type
of button to restart the dialog.

I think that's about as close as you could get, without doing some
horrible non-general hack outside of the PAM framework to try to
anticipate what might happen next.

-Bob