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

[Mirco Müller <macslow bangang de>]

Am Freitag, den 23.11.2007, 12:35 -0500 schrieb Matthias Clasen:

> The semantics are poorly documented, hard to understand and difficult
> to use. The
> format also has limitations that make many interesting designs impossible to
> implement (e.g. the fact that size-changes of elements at runtime are
> very poorly
> handled, leading to broken situations when translated strings vary in
> size).

	We should make use of SVGs all over the place. That will solve a lot of
problems regarding localization and font-sizes. Andy Fitzsimon once did
a good talk at LGM2 about the benefits of SVG-usage for theme-assets in
terms of localization-support. Unfortunately I could not find any slides
from his talk online.

	For the GL-based greeter I will make librsvg, cairo and pango be good
friends with GL.

>  The
> implementation on top of GnomeCanvas has serious drawbacks, e.g. for
> accessibility.

	GnomeCanvas is something that I will not use in the GL-based greeter. I
had my share of unpleasant experiences with GL ontop/inside GnomeCanvas
when I did the first greeter in the older gdm. That was one to many :) 

Best regards...

Mirco