Re: [g-a-devel] gnome-mag and LoginHelper interface

[Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes <cerdiogenes yahoo com br>]

Hi Bill,

Could you present me a use-case where I can just see it work (and them
remove the interface and appreciate the difference), or there isn't any
application that make use of the LoginHelper interface?

Best regards,
Carlos.

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 16:00 -0300, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes
wrote:
> Hi Bill,
> 
> On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 14:45 +0000, Bill Haneman wrote:
> > Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes wrote:
> > > Hi all!
> > >
> > > Hi Bill! Some time ago you told me that removing the LoginHelper
> > > interface from gnome-mag would broken it. Could you provide me use cases
> > > where I can see the importance of this interface and how it's act?
> > >   
> > Hi Carlos;
> > 
> > The primary use for LoginHelper (which should probably have been called 
> > AuthenticationHelper instead) is to allow assistive technologies and 
> > services to continue to operate during screen blanking and various kinds 
> > of authentication processes. 
> > 
> > For instance, when the screensaver lock is active, the magnifier window 
> > cannot normally be seen.  The LoginHelper interface allows the 
> > screensaver dialog to query whether any assistive technologies or 
> > services need access to desktop services during authentication.  In the 
> > magnifier+screensaver use case, LoginHelper tells the screensaver that 
> > access to the Xserver display is required, and that a particular window 
> > (the magnifier's toplevel window) needs to be raised.
> 
> If I understand right the screensaver raises the magnifier window only
> when it asks for the password? I tried here with xscreensaver and with
> gnome-screensaver (in the last the authentication mechanism isn't
> working) and anyone raise the magnifier window.
> 
> I only have it raised when using the OverlayWindow, but this is a
> standard behavior, and when running OpenGL screensavers these interfere
> in the magnifier window.
> 
> Best regards,
> Carlos.
> 
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > 
> > Bill
> > > Best regards,
> > > Carlos.
> > >
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> > >   
> > 
> 
> 
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