Re: [Usability] Re: GDM

[Andrew Z <andrewz springsrescuemission org>]

michael chang wrote:

> > On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 16:47 -0700, Rob Adams wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > The reasons for the way gdm is aren't usability ones, but technical
> > > ones.  It is possible that the way the user authenticates isn't through
> > > a password.  It could be a fingerprint, or pretty much anything, and
> > > this is all decided by PAM based on the username.
> > >
> > > I don't know the exact details, but that's the core reason it is the way
> > > it is.
> > >      
>
> IIRC, there are various 'skins' for GDM that show a username list and
> then a password box, similar to the Windows XP (and similar) Welcome
> Screen.  
>  
I didn't notice any such GDM themes on art.themes.org.

> Because I'm not using GDM/Linux at the moment (answering from Windows
> XP ATM), I don't have a "accurate" mockup, but the idea I'm thinking
> of looks like this:  (apologies for the poor image quality and
> draftiness of the idea, but I believe it gets the gist of my concept
> across; I just spent about a minute and a half in MS Paint to draw it
> up quickly...)
Your mockups look like a good solution between the usability and the 
technical requirements.


Andrew