[gdm-list] GDM2 2.8.0.5 (stable), the "Join In Now" 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 2.8.0.5 release of GDM2 is a minor release with a few neat
features, translation updates and minor bug fixes.

Changes

- gdmflexiserver supports --startnew option so that
  gdmflexiserver can be told to not pop-up the dialog
  asking if the user wants to start a current session.
  With this option it just always starts a new session.
  This allows running gdmflexiserver from the
  screensaver, where the pop-up can't be interacted
  with due to the nature of the screensaver.
  (Brian Cameron)

- Now gdmflexiserver supports gnome-screensaver if
  available, then defaults to xscreensaver.
  (William Jon McCann)

- Bug corrected in dwellmouselistener which caused it
  to always fail to recognize gestures.  (Brian
  Cameron)

- Added warning message if gdmgreeter theme supports
  face browser but does not have pam-message defined.
  (Brian Cameron)

- gdmsetup and gdmphotosetup now only map right/left
  mouse buttons to button1 when running under GDM.
  When running as user, honor user defaults.
  (Brian Cameron)

- XdmcpFill() failure is now logged as debug, since
  this happens when the client disconnects from the
  XDMCP server before the session was setup.
  (Bastien Nocera)

- gdmsetup fixed so when user modifies Include/Exclude
  list, the automatic/timed dropdown lists are updated
  immediately instead of having to stop and restart
  gdmsetup to see the users in the list. (Brian
  Cameron)

- Correct illegal reference to build directory in
  installed .la files. (Stanislav Brabec)

- Removed test that causes needless syslog() message
  on Solaris when auditing is turned off.  New docs
  explaining how to setup autologin on Solaris.
  (Brian Cameron)

- Translation updates (Gabor Kelemen, Priit Laes, Kjartan
  Maraas, Ankit Patel, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, Hendrick
  Richter, Erdal Ronahi, Satoru SATOH, Francisco Javier F.
  Serrador, Alexander Shopov, Clytie Siddall, Tommi
  Vainikainen, Funda Wang, Vincent van Adrighem,
  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