Re: [Usability] Re: GDM

[michael chang <thenewme91 gmail com>]

On 10/3/05, Andrew Z <andrewz springsrescuemission org> wrote:
> 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.

I don't know where they come from then; I know that Debian releases
something of a gdm-themes package that has such themes, unless I'm
mistaken.  Might be outdated, though.  (Debian Unstable).

> >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.

Thank you.

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~Mike
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