F8 artwork

[Máirí­n Duffy]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 23:45 -0400, Máirí­n Duffy wrote:
>> Matthias Clasen wrote:
>>> On the topic of the login screen, I forgot to mention that we are also
>>> considering switching to the plain greeter to improve the accessibility
>>> situation on the login screen. If we go forward with this idea, it would
>>> imply some changes to the themeability of the login screen. 
>> I talked to Brian Cameron a bit about GDM theme accessibility at the 
>> last Boston GNOME Summit, and from him I understood that only the 
>> positions of some of the buttons would have to be changed around and 
>> some buttons that are not currently displayed would have to be. But 
>> beyond that I don't see how making the GDM theme more accessible would 
>> necessarily change the themeability of the login screen?
> 
> Changing to the plain greeter (you can try it out in gdmsetup) would
> mean theming by background image + whatever length we want to go to
> theme a regular gtk+ application, as opposed to the somewhat obscure 
> and uncooperative canvas format of the themed greeter. The themed lock
> dialog and the F7 incarnation of rhgb are proof that this does not
> really restrict the extent to which the screen can be themed.

Oh okay. Would it not be acceptable if a nice GDM theme was proposed 
that didn't use the plain greeter yet had all the necessary buttons and 
menu items to make it accessible?

~m