Re: dead code related to fast user switching

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 14:07 -0500, William Jon McCann wrote:
> > I'm not really sure what the os x/win32 approaches to user switching
> > are, and how they differ from what we have. Maybe you can outline them
> > a bit, as the starting point for this discussion ?
> 
> OK, I've just created a stub of a wiki page for this research:
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeScreensaver/UserSwitchingResearch
> 
> I'll be adding to it... I'd like to include very high level work-flow
> descriptions as well as lower level architectural details.  Anyone
> please feel free to make additions or corrections.

Thanks, good starting point. Should probably include a description of
the current state of affairs in GNOME.

> > Anyway, I'm currently working on a gdm patch to make it possible to
> > pick the user in the lock dialog/applet, and then have the login screen
> > come up asking for the password. The current situation where you pick
> > a user in the lock dialog and then have to enter the username again
> > in the lock dialog is just absurd.
> 
> That's awesome.  Thanks for doing that.  GDM is a big piece of this
> puzzle.  Depending on what kind of user switching workflow we want we
> may have to make some significant changes.

My patch is attached to 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335786