Re: [Usability] Re: GDM



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



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