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

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>]

Le vendredi 23 novembre 2007 à 11:31 -0500, Matthias Clasen a écrit :
> 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...

Well, I must say I seriously hope the xml format will be kept.

It is one of the few things which allows us to have almost the same
greeter theme file between kdm and gdm. It would be a pity to loose it
(and even more to not be able to have a graphically appealing and
themable greeter).

-- 
Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>
Mandriva