More UI Change for GDM
- From: Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>
- To: Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>
- Cc: release-team gnome org, Calum Benson Sun COM
- Subject: More UI Change for GDM
- Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 13:18:12 -0500
Once again, I realize its past the UI freeze data for GNOME, but there
is one more UI change that I think should be considered for GNOME 2.12.
Calum is in the middle of doing a UI review for GDM, which I was hoping
would get done in time for me to get these changes in before the freeze.
He still isn't done with the review, but I'd like to address the issues
that he highlighted:
1) Remove mnemonics from the tabs in gdmsetup, since you aren't supposed
to use them according to the HIG.
2) Change "Always disallow TCP connections to X server (disables all
remote connections)" checkbox label to "Disallow TCP connections to
Xserver (disabls xforwarding, but doesn not affect XDMCP". Calum
highlighted that the previous message implied it also disabled
XDMCP.
3) Change "Include All Users" checkbox label to "Include All
Users (Get Include user list from /etc/passwd, not appropriate
if using NIS)".
4) Change "Face Browser" tab label to "Users", since the information
on this tab doesn't just affect the face browser, but also controls
which users can be selected for Automatic/Timed login. The following
text is added to the top of this tab to make it more clear what this
tab does:
The Users tab specifies which users are visible to GDM. Users listed
as Included will appear in the Face Browser if it is enabled in the
"Security" tab and will also appear in the drop-down list for
Automatic/Timed login in the "General" tab. Users listed as Excluded
will not be displayed regardless of whether "Include All Users" is
checked.
5) Fixed the sensitivies on the Users tab so that only the Include list
is made insensitive when "Include All Users" is selected. Previously
the Exclude list was also made insensitive, which is a bug since the
Exclude list is used regardless of whether "Include All Users" is
checked.
Most of these changes are string changes, and its still before the
String freeze. The only real UI change is fixing the sensitivity
bug on the Users tab. Is it okay to put this fix into the 2.12
branch? The fix is already in GDM2 CVS head, but not in the branch.
There is another issue that Calum highlighted. According to the
HIG a program shouldn't use a notebook with more than 6 tabs.
gdmsetup uses 8 tabs. This issue will wait until a future
release to get fixed, since I'd like Calum to finish the UI review
before fixing this problem.
Brian
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