Re: Break string freeze for GDM 2.20

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le vendredi 29 février 2008 à 15:37 -0600, Brian Cameron a écrit :
> I would like to request a string freeze break for GDM 2.20.  Since
> GDM 2.22 was not approved for inclusion in GNOME 2.22, I would like
> to get some fixes into GDM 2.20 that would be nice to address, but
> affect strings.  I plan to do a new GDM 2.20 release sometime in
> the near future so that people can get the latest bug fixes when
> they upgrade to GNOME 2.22.
> 
> Can I get approval to fix the following bugs with the attached
> patches?
> 
> - The documentation needs to be updated to explain that the Custom
>    Widgetry interface broke slightly due to moving away from using
>    vicious-extensions and moving towards gkeyfile.
> 
> - Bug 477881, fix GDM to honor the default password character
>    rather than hardcoding it to the '*' character
> 
>    http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477881

As this contains some security implication, I would say this is worth
committing, as if we don't do it upstream, distros will patch
downstream...
Approval 1 of 2 for i18n.

> - Improve tooltip in gdmgreeter
> 
>    http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389734
> 
>    I notice that, by accident, I committed the 2nd patch (tt.diff)
>    to GDM 2.20.3.  If I don't get approval, I can back this out
>    of the next release.

This one seems minor to me. But if the first change is approved, I think
we could also let one more string.

Claude