GDM2 2.13.0.9 (unstable), the "Happiness" release




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(If you have no clue what gdm is, skip a few paragraphs down first)

The 2.13.0.9 release is an unstable release of GDM2 with one
useful enhancement, the ability for gdmgreeter themes to be able
to specify what GTK+ theme should be used to control appearance
of the F10/Options menu, the entry field, or other GTK+ widgets.
Other than that, there are translation improvements and some minor
changes to address some stability/memory leak issues identified
with the last unstable release.

2.13.0.9 stuff:

- New "gtk-theme" property can be used with the <greeter> tag in
  gdmgreeter themes to specify a theme to control the appearance
  of the F10/Options menu, the entry field, and other GTK+
  widget appearance.  (Brian Cameron)

- Core dumping problem with gdmgreeter should be fixed.  (Brian
  Cameron)

- Some fixes to memory management.  Memory leak issues resolved.
  (Brian Cameron)

- Correct error message that is printed when ServAuthDir isn't
  owned by root:gdm.  THis doesn't affect localization since
  the string didn't change, just the value placed into the %s
  sequence.  (Brian Cameron)

- Some C-99 compile issues resolved.  (Jans Granseur)

- Translation updates (Takeshi AIHANA, \305\275ygimantas
  Beru\304\215ka, Raphael Higino, Inaki Larranaga, Rhys Jones,
  Leonid Kanter, Priit Laes, Chao-Hsiung Liao, Duarte Loreto,
  Kjartan Maraas, Kostas Papadimas, Satoru SATOH, Clytie
  Siddall, Slobodan D. Sredojevic)

Note:  GDM2 was originally written by Martin K. Petersen <mkp mkp net>.
Much work has been done on GDM2 by George Lebl, and Brian Cameron
currently shares maintainership duties with the Queen of England.

Note2:  If installing from the tarball do note that make install
overwrites most of the setup files, all except gdm.conf.  It will
however save backups with the .orig extension first.

#ifndef GDM_DISABLE_DEPRECATED
Note3:  Note3 has been depracated ...
#endif /* GDM_DISABLE_DEPRECATED */

Downloading:
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Webpage: http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.8/

No RPM this time around BTW.  Have fun.  A spec file is included though,
so you can try:

  rpmbuild -ta gdm-whatever.tar.gz

Have fun,

Brian



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