GDM2 2.17.5 (unstable), the "Beijing" Release

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

The 2.17.5 release was made available on Monday, but I was not
able to send out the release announcement until today since my
mail server went down.  Apologies for the late announcement.

AOOH-GAH
--------

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

The 2.17.5 release is an unstable release of GDM with the following
new features.

- No longer close file descripters in forked process which
  shows dialog boxes since this causes the dialogs to not
  display any text.  (Brian Cameron)

- Now GDM will recognize when the system default language
  has changed and will display new GUI's with the new
  default language.  By default the /var/sysconfig/i18n
  file is assumed to have the language defined in LANG=foo
  format.  The --with-lang-file configure option may be
  needed to specify a different system language configuration
  file.  On Solaris, for example, it would be
  /etc/default/init.  (Ray Strode and Takao Fujiwara)

- Remove filter_watch after it is called for the first time.
  This filter is used to start the at_spi_registryd, but
  after it is started there is no need to listen to the
  propery any more.  (Li Yuan)

- Further improvements to gdmsetup to improve usability.
  (Lukasz Zalewski)

- No longer hardcode invisible_char property in glade files,
  instead realy on GTK+ default.  (Vitaliy Ischenko)

- Fix so that the userlist is hidden properly when there
  are no users.  (Brian Cameron)

- Fixes for compiling with gcc 2.95. (Jens Granseuer)

- Translation updates (Djihed Afifi, Raivis Dejus,
  Theppitak Karoonboonyanan, Gabor Kelemen, David Lodge,
  Jovan Naumovski, Amitakhya Phukan, Danilo \305\240egan,
  Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Ilkka Tuohela, Matic Zgur)

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:
============

Online Documentation - http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/
Latest Stable        - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.16/
Latest Unstable      - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.17/

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