Re: [gdm-list] face-browser proposal for new gdm

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Nov 23, 2007 4:57 AM, Mirco Müller <macslow bangang de> wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 23.11.2007, 10:37 +0100 schrieb Mirco Müller:
>
> > ...
> > Please have a look at...
> >
> >       https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GdmFaceBrowser
>
> Ehm... sorry for the confusion... this is the correct URL...
>
>         https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/GdmFaceBrowser
>

Looks nice, indeed. I didn't see any kind of keyboard focus indication
in the screenshots, but I'm sure
that is just an oversight. It also wasn't clear to me from the
screenshots how switching from face
browser to regular login is supposed to work. Our own ideas in this
area were to make the face brower
show local users plus non-local users that have logged into the
machine recently, and then have an
"Other..." entry.

But finding this
"Theme-support was based on a XML-file in the old gdm. This should be
taken over to the new gdm."
in the text has me concerned. I hope you don't mean that the new greeter should
read the same xml format that the current greeter was using for themes ?
Getting rid of that format is one of my personal hopes for a new greeter...



Matthias