Re: [gdm-list] update

[Bob Doolittle <Robert Doolittle Sun COM>]

Looks interesting, Jon.

It'd be nice if it were extensible/configurable.  We'd like to be able
to add something like your HostChooser with our own (script)
handler to cause a Thin Client to connect to a specified host (not
XDMCP).

Sun Ray has a capability like that today, but you have to configure
it to bring up our Host Chooser before the greeter if you want to
offer the option (it's implemented via a GDM PreSessionScriptDir
hook), and that's pretty ugly.  It would be great to be able to 
integrate it.

-Bob

William Jon McCann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Been a busy week so far.  Getting ready for the 2.21.1 release.
>
> A lot of work has gone into enhancing ConsoleKit to keep a per seat
> history and provide some reporting functionality.  I hope this will
> enable us to show (perhaps only) the recent/frequent logins in the
> face browser.  Something like: ck-history --frequent --seat=Seat1
>
> Large chunks of the greeter framework are falling into place.  The
> greeter has become a fully fledged session.  At the moment this
> session has the concept of run levels so that we can support different
> modes for: graphical boot, first-time configuration, remote-sessions
> (xdmcp), the login window, and shutdown.  Each of these levels can
> have different in-process widgets/objects or out of process programs
> (via autostart).  For now we only support autostart programs for the
> login-window run level.  Examples of programs that might use this
> autostart are: gnome-power-manager, and nm-applet.
>
> We also now have a plugin based settings-daemon.  At the moment there
> is only one plugin (xsettings) that sets xsettings from gconf.  But we
> should probably port most of the pseudo-modules in
> gnome-settings-daemon over to it too.  It could probably even replace
> gnome-settings-daemon at some point.
>
> We have a variety of widgets that are/may be used in the greeter.
> Some of these include:
>
> UserChooser: both in widget and dialog forms.  Used to display and
> select users.  Data supplied by a UserManager object.  Hopefully will
> have some nice ConsoleKit history integration soon.
>
> LoginWindow: a GtkWindow that may be tweaked using Glade (probably
> GtkBuilder at some point).  It is inspired by another well known login
> window.  It has a click-to-cycle system information label that shows:
> system name, OS release, (not yet) ip address, (not yet) network
> status, and system time.  The window embeds the UserChooser widget for
> user selection.  Will also host the PAM prompts on a second notebook
> page.
>
> Background: displays the background "wallpaper" for the greeter.  It
> loads the settings from GConf (defaults).  This is nice in that we get
> configuration for free and it just works.  We use cairo to draw this.
> One thing we still need to do is to make it handle damage redraws more
> efficiently.
>
> Panel: a panel like widget that sits on the bottom edge of the screen.
>  As of tonight it is disabled by default.  It contains a notification
> area so that background apps can display info.  One use case for this
> is gnome-power-manager.  However, the stuff that gnome-power-manager
> shows strikes me as a bit inappropriate for a few reasons so I've
> disabled it.  One case where this widget may be quite useful is when
> logging into a remote session via XDMCP.
>
> LanguageChooser: a tree based display/selection widget for locales.
> Unfortunately, this hasn't been hooked up to the greeter yet.  It
> reads the on disk locale databases and then uses iso-codes to do the
> name mapping and  translation.
>
> SessionChooser: not quite done yet.  Will allow the user to select a
> session.  Hopefully this will not be seen by most people.
>
> HostChooser: a widget that will display and allow the user to select a
> host that is offering remote xdmcp logins.  The way I see this working
> at the moment is after host selection we will start up a xephyr window
> to the host right in the greeter.  We will show the Panel widget at
> the bottom of the screen to provide: a disconnect button, an
> indication that this is a remote host, and in some cases the status of
> the local system.
>
> Still a lot of work to do but we're moving forward.
>
> Questions or comments?  Offers to help?
>
> Thanks,
> Jon
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