Re: [gdm-list] Is there a timeline for GDMsetup?

[wayne_cat <exchange extraseven de>]

autocrosser wrote:
> 
> Greetings..
> 
> Ubuntu has now moved to the "new" gdm with Alpha2--there have been several
> problems with the change-over (I will not go into them here--bug reports
> have been filed), but many of the testing users are trying to come to
> grips with the lack of configuration that the new gdm has. I have seen
> reports from several sources about Gnome developers & the various Distro
> reps talking & agreeing that the re-write "as-it is" is OK--did anyone
> take a sample of users? What we see is a large regression that removes
> choices--I was under the impression that Linux was all about choice.
> 
> I find now that I must go in and edit different conf files to try to
> recover a small fraction of function that the old gdm had--I realize that
> manpower being what it is--writing a settings panel would take time that
> "could" be used in other ways, but is there a chance that someone could
> write a very basic panel to at least cover the schema data?
> 

I think a lot of users will have problems without a basic settings panel.
I'm used to work with vi and
I don't mind to read manual and man pages, but I'm afraid that a lot of
users prefer "the easy way". 

There is a nice mockup that I have seen in the Ubuntu Karmic Testing forum:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7563399&postcount=193

Would it be hard to add this function to gdm 2.26?




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