Re: [gdm-list] [PATCH 0/3] Support screen locking pref in user switch applet

[Dan Nicholson <dbn lists gmail com>]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Charles-Henri d'Adhémar
<cdadhemar gmail com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am a daily gdm user on Fedora 10.
> As an introduction (it is my first post on this ML) I would like to
> thanks a lot every body here for their great job on the new gdm !
>
> I have a little question related to the post above about supporting a
> screen lock preference when user switching :
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gdm-list/2008-October/msg00021.html
>
> A patch has been proposed a few month ago, the real need for such
> feature has been challenged and it seems there are enough good reasons
> to have this feature implemented as an option (not active by default).
>
> The patches have not been reviewed nor included on the HEAD.
> I just wanted to know if you are working on this or if there are no
> chances to have such feature integrated and why not in such case ?
> Also I wanted to know if I can help on anything, such testing the
> patches, to make this subject move forward ?

The latest version of those patches are here:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=559623

I haven't rebased those for a while. I probably will when I upgrade to
F10, but I don't expect these to be applied to gdm. There's been zero
interest (or even acknowledgment) from any of the maintainers in 6
months, and I don't see that suddenly changing.

--
Dan