rawhide report: 20050928 changes

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 10:55 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 9/28/05, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > >gdm-1:2.8.0.4-2
> > >---------------
> > >* Tue Sep 27 2005 Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> 1:2.8.0.4-2
> > >- remove flexiserver from menus
> > >
> > >
> > Why is this being done?
> 
> man... i was hoping the inclusion of gnome-screensaver was going to be
> the next piece towards a reasonably functional "switch user"
> functionality. flexiserver basically worked to get a second user
> desktop up and running and even switch between them via a dialog. The
> only thing missing was reasonable UI in the screensaver dialog that
> let you choose a user desktop to switch to while screensaver was
> active. Of course, the harder problem of handling permissions on
> peripherals in a sane way when 2+ user session where at the console
> would still be unresolved.
> 
> -jef
> 

We decided to disable the ui bits until the "harder problem" is solved.

Matthias